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Coherent causal control: a new distinction within causation
The recent literature on causation has seen the introduction of several distinctions within causation, which are thought to be important for...
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Causation in Physics and in Physicalism
It is widely thought that there is an important argument to be made that starts with premises taken from the science of physics and ends with the...
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William of Ockham on Essential Dependence and Causation
It has become a commonly held view that Ockham does not defend a reductionist account of efficient causality, and that for him causal powers cannot...
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General Relativity, Mental Causation, and Energy Conservation
The conservation of energy and momentum have been viewed as undermining Cartesian mental causation since the 1690s. Modern discussions of the topic...
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On Two Slights to Noether’s First Theorem: Mental Causation and General Relativity
It is widely held among philosophers that the conservation of energy is true and important, and widely held among philosophers of science that...
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Why Power (Dunamis) Ontology of Causation is Relevant to Managers: Dialogue as an Illustration
Since management is about influencing - influencing people who work in the organization, the structure and practices of the organization, as well as...
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Understanding causation
In Part I of ‘Causality and Determination” (CD), Anscombe writes that (1) we understand causality through understanding specific causal expressions,...
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Conflicts Between General Causation and the Theravāda Concept of Kamma in Moral Education
This paper analyzes the concept of general causation and the concept of kamma. It argues that the concept of kamma does not fit with the concept of...
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Well-Being, Mental Illness, Co-Production and Social Prescription: Social Constructionism, Relational Integrity, and Agency
As with Chap. 6 , this chapter starts with sociability as one of the six ontological features of the human...
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Mind-Body Connection and Causation
This chapter deals with the possibility of interpreting the mind-body connection as a causal relationship. First note that this question, like any...
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Contrastive mental causation
Any theory of mind needs to explain mental causation. Kim’s (upward) exclusion argument concludes that non-reductive physicalism cannot meet this...
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Top-Down Causation and Emergence
This book presents the latest research, conducted by leading philosophers and scientists from various fields, on the topic of top-down causation. The...
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Mental causation as joint causation
This paper explores and defends the idea that mental properties and their physical bases jointly cause their physical effects. The paper evaluates...
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Mental Causation, Autonomy and Action Theory
Nonreductive physicalism states that actions have sufficient physical causes and distinct mental causes. Nonreductive physicalism has recently faced...
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Models of Downward Causation
Two conceptual frameworks – in terms of phase space and in terms of structural equations – are sketched, in which downward causal influence of...
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Kinds of Mental Content
A science of the mental does not need to start with well-defined kinds, it can start with ‘folk’ definitions and refine them as the science matures....
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Theories of Causation
This chapter contains introductory material about several theory families in causal theory: regularity theory, counterfactual theory, probabilistic...
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Moving from the mental to the behavioral in the metaphysics of social institutions
One particularly influential strand of the contemporary philosophical literature on the metaphysics of social institutions has been the collective...
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Causation in Analytic Metaphysics
This chapter discusses the concept of causation in the Western and African analytic frameworks. In Western analytic philosophy, this is discussed by...