7 For a use of the psychoanalytic concept of 'overdetermination' in political theory, see Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

That comes only when it is combined with the asymmetry of overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Let's call it matrimonial overdetermination (or, on the other hand, let's not).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

No overdetermination: There is no systematic overdetermination of physical effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

The overdetermination is all the more distracting because the novel is underplotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 October 02 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

It is said that postulating systematic overdetermination in this context is “absurd”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

The issue here hinges on the acceptability of different kinds of overdetermination (Bennett 2003).    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

I think most financial commentators would go with the weaker position of overdetermination of causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Soros on Principles of Financial Regulation and Efficient Market Hypothesis:] Reference

Both Gus and his foot coexist as causes, without competition and, we might add, without overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

This is a very natural assumption, but it is not justified if causal overdetermination of behaviour is possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dualism] Reference

Lewis combines the de facto asymmetry of overdetermination with his analysis of the comparative similarity relation.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Mills (1996), for example, defends mental-physical overdetermination as the most plausible route for the dualist to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

Supervenience is at least necessary, if non-reductive physicalists are to avoid the absurdity of strong overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

If the dualist can reasonably claim that (1) and (2) are true, this will make a strong prima facie case for overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

Difficult legal problems arise in certain cases of overdetermination, often termed those of ˜overtaking causes™ or ˜causal preemption™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation in the Law] Reference

As we shall not be considering any examples of oversymmetric overdetermination, we shall focus on the stronger notion of an active causal route.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Moreover, the asymmetry of overdetermination is an esoteric scientific hypothesis that is not common knowledge to everyone using counterfactuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

The strongest intuitive objection against overdetermination is clearly stated by Mills (1996: 112), who is himself a defender of overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dualism] Reference

This fact in turn implies that, where the asymmetry of overdetermination obtains, the present counterfactually depends on the past, but not on the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Oversimplification vs. overdetermination – these are very different propositions about what literary criticism is supposed to do, or not do, as you have it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trilling on the Job of Literary Criticism: to recall variousness, possibility, complexity and difficulty] Reference

Of course, if the asymmetry of overdetermination went in the opposite temporal direction, the very same standards of similarity would dictate the opposite verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Is it a matter of temporal direction, the direction of forking, the direction of overdetermination, the direction of independence, or the direction of manipulation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

Ruling out the possibility of overdetermination is not as simple, however, if we take the creaturely power to be restricted to that of bringing about a creature's modes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occasionalism] Reference

Another criticism is that the asymmetry of overdetermination does not exist in the form required to support Lewis's explanation of the temporal asymmetry of counterfactuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

The dueling accounts of the real-world Murdoch rift — the tyrannical Rupert suppressing his children vs. the business stratagem — all seem like so much overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Lachlan Flew the Coop: It Was Rupe] Reference

The content of the message is an overdetermination of the soothing repetitions of the nurturing voice, the sinthomic presence of embodied enjoyment that hovers around the poem.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference

(see also Garrett 1998, and, for a more general discussion of overdetermination, Funkhouser 2002).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

The "unity of the working class is not an infrastructural datum constituted outside the process of revolutionary overdetermination".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kafila] Reference

From this example, it should be obvious that overdetermination can happen sometimes, but it would be crazy to think its happening all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

But what the heck is "overdetermination"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

This is another plausible case of overdetermination (see section.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality and Evolutionary Biology] Reference

It’s probably a case of overdetermination—”all of the above.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive?] Reference

The minimalism of overdetermination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-04-01] Reference

3) (no universal overdetermination): The physical effects of mental causes are not all overdetermined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

Reichenbach 1956, Horwich 1987, Papineau 1993, Dowe 2000), overdetermination (Lewis 1979), independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference