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Is There High-Level Causation?
Causation Special Sciences Thermodynamics Ceteris Paribus Laws Minutiae Rectus Laws
2016/6/13
The discovery of high-level causal relations seems a central activity of the special sciences. Those same sciences are less successful in formulating strict laws. If causation must be underwritten by ...
Relativity,Quantum Entanglement,Counterfactuals,and Causation
Causation Counterfactuals Relativity Entanglement
2016/6/13
We investigate whether standard counterfactual analyses of causation (CACs) imply that the outcomes of space-like separated measurements on entangled particles are causally related. While it has somet...
A Relic of a Bygone Age?Causation,Time Symmetry and the Directionality Argument
Causation direction of time time asymmetry time symmetry time reversal
2016/6/13
Bertrand Russell famously argued that causation is not part of the fundamental physical description of the world, describing the notion of cause as "a relic of a bygone age." This paper assesses one o...
Causation,Chance and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence
Causation chance evidential decision theory causal decision theory David Lewis
2016/5/31
Newcomb problems turn on a tension between two principles of choice: roughly, a principle sensitive to the causal features of the relevant situation, and a principle sensitive only to evidential facto...
No Levels,No Problems:Downward Causation in Neuroscience
level mechanism composition scale downward causation neuroscience
2016/5/30
I show that the recent account of levels in neuroscience proposed by Bechtel and Craver is unsatisfactory, since it fails to provide a plausible criterion for being at the same level and is incompatib...
Cognition and Causation as Universal Phenomenom
Cognition consciousness causation emergence
2015/7/29
A comment on the universality of all things.
Causation, decision theory, and Bell's theorem: a quantum analogue of the Newcomb problem
causation decision theory Bell's theorem quantum foundations
2009/11/18
I apply some of the lessons from quantum theory, in particular from Bell's theorem, to a debate on the foundations of decision theory and causation. By tracing a formal analogy between the basic assum...
Proportionality and the Metaphysics of Causation
contrastivism causation proportionality Metaphysics
2009/9/17
This paper reexamines the case for a proportionality constraint on causation. The general idea behind the proportionality constraint is that causes need the right amount of detail. The cause needs to ...
Quantum physics, causation, and the GRW dynamics
causal properties classical properties direction of time
2009/9/16
The paper makes a case for there being causation in the form of causal properties in the domain of fundamental physics. That case is built on an interpretation of quantum theory in terms of state redu...
In this paper I consider possible causation, specifically, would-cause counterfactuals of the form ‘had an event of kind A occurred, it would have caused an event of kind B’. I outline some difficulti...
This paper suggests a structure that makes room for a class of solutions to the mental causation problem.
Causation in Biology: Stability, Specificity, and the Choice of Levels of Explanation
Cause Stability Levels of Explanation Causal Specificity
2009/9/8
This paper attempts to elucidate three characteristics of causal relationships that are significant in biological contexts. Stability has to do with whether a causal relationship continues to hold und...
Causation, Exclusion, and the Special Sciences
downward causation causal exclusion mental causation interventionist theory of causation
2009/4/14
The issue of downward causation (and mental causation in particular), and the exclusion problem is discussed by taking into account some recent advances in the philosophy of science. The problem is vi...
Pragmatic Causation
pragmatism causation
2008/4/22
Two arguments due to Russell are examined, and found to show that the notion of causation as full determination doesn’t mesh easily with deterministic global physics and the distinction between effect...
Probability theory and causation.A branching space-times analysis
branching space-times causation probabilities screening-off
2008/4/22
We provide a formally rigorous framework for integrating singular causation, as understood by Nuel Belnap's theory of causae causantes, and objective single case probabilities. The central notion is t...