Add to ORKGI raise two objections against Christian List and Peter Menzies' influential account of high-level causation. Improving upon some of Stephen Yablo's earlier work, I develop an alternative theory which evades both objections. The discussion calls into question List and Menzies' main contention, namely, that the exclusion principle, applied to difference-making, is false
The causal exclusion argument supports the notion that causation should be thought of as a purely lo...
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those...
This is a pre-print of an article published in Philosophical Studies 165 (1):29-47 (2013). The final...
I raise two objections against Christian List and Peter Menzies' influential account of high-level c...
It is often argued that higher-level special-science properties cannot be causally efficacious since...
Causal exclusion arguments are taken to threaten the autonomy of the special sciences, and the causa...
Intuitions play an important role in the debate on the causal status of high-level properties. For ...
It is often argued that higher-level special-science properties cannot be causally efficacious since...
There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emer...
Consider the following causal exclusion principle: For all distinct properties F and F* such that F*...
This paper discusses Peter Menzies' work on the exclusion argument. I defend an interventionist tre...
The causal efficacy of special science properties is put in doubt, given that all of macro-reality s...
Peter Menzies has developed a novel version of the exclusion principle that he claims to be compatib...
Jaegwon Kim famously challenged non-reductive materialism/physicalism (NRM), a popular stance in the...
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those...
The causal exclusion argument supports the notion that causation should be thought of as a purely lo...
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those...
This is a pre-print of an article published in Philosophical Studies 165 (1):29-47 (2013). The final...
I raise two objections against Christian List and Peter Menzies' influential account of high-level c...
It is often argued that higher-level special-science properties cannot be causally efficacious since...
Causal exclusion arguments are taken to threaten the autonomy of the special sciences, and the causa...
Intuitions play an important role in the debate on the causal status of high-level properties. For ...
It is often argued that higher-level special-science properties cannot be causally efficacious since...
There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe. Emer...
Consider the following causal exclusion principle: For all distinct properties F and F* such that F*...
This paper discusses Peter Menzies' work on the exclusion argument. I defend an interventionist tre...
The causal efficacy of special science properties is put in doubt, given that all of macro-reality s...
Peter Menzies has developed a novel version of the exclusion principle that he claims to be compatib...
Jaegwon Kim famously challenged non-reductive materialism/physicalism (NRM), a popular stance in the...
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those...
The causal exclusion argument supports the notion that causation should be thought of as a purely lo...
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those...
This is a pre-print of an article published in Philosophical Studies 165 (1):29-47 (2013). The final...