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Emergent agent causation
In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated the philosophical appeal of agent...
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Causal pluralism: agent causation without the panicky metaphysics
An important divide in the free will literature—one that is arguably almost as common as the distinction between compatibilism and...
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Does Panpsychism Explain Mental Causation?
In the contemporary literature on panpsychism, one often finds the claim that a Russellian-monist version of panpsychism, i.e., Russellian panpsychism ...
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On the probabilistic character of irreducible mental causation
It has recently been remarked that the argument for physicalism from the causal closure of the physical is incomplete. It is only effective against...
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Hamilton, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Causation
I show how Sir William Rowan Hamilton’s philosophical commitments led him to a causal interpretation of classical mechanics. I argue that Hamilton’s...
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Consequences of the Idealist Interpretation for Causation
In this chapter, I discuss the second metaphysical implication of the Idealist reading, pertaining to causation. Spatial contiguity seems to be one...
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Downward Causation in Self-Organizing Systems: Problem of Self-Causation
Enabling constraints are bottom up causes which create the possibility of the existence of a system. Disabling constraints reduce the degrees of...
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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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The Timing Problem for Dualist Accounts of Mental Causation
Setting aside all exclusion-style worries about the redundancy of postulating additional, non-physical mental causes for effects that can already be...
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The categories of causation
This paper is an essay in what Austin ( Proc Aristotel Soc 57: 1–30, 1956–1957) called "linguistic phenomenology". Its focus is on showing how the...
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Building low level causation out of high level causation
I argue that high level causal relationships are often more fundamental than low level causal relationships. My argument is based on some general...
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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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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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Agent Causation, Realist Metaphysics of Powers, and the Reducibility Objection
To address what I call the “Uniformity”, “Capriciousness”, and “Reducibility” objections, recent agent-causation theories hold that agent-causation...
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Causation and Laws of Nature
I define the key terms of the Causal Principle, namely ‘whatever’, ‘begins to exist’, and ‘cause’, and the related terms ‘time’, ‘eternal’, ‘event’,...
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A Process-Oriented Approach to Mental Causation
Friedrich Sieben argues that a process-oriented approach in the tradition of Whitehead is more adequate for understanding the phenomenon of mental...
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Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and John Duns Scotus on the Causation of Proper and Inseparable Accidents
Medieval philosophers such as Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus defended the possibility of what I call self-agency, the view that substances bring...
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Leibnizian Causes in a Newtonian World—Émilie Du Châtelet on Causation
The concept of causation lies at the intersection of metaphysics, epistemology, and science. Some recent publications, especially Brading, (2019),...
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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...