Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, Causation in the Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 50, Supplement (Autumn, 1990), pp. 195-214 ...

I propose to explain inter-level relations without inter-level causation by appealing to the notion of fathanded interventions, and an argument against inter-level causation which dissolves the ...

Is backward causation possible? Alison Fernandes, assistant professor in philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, is part of a brave band of academics attempting to give answers.

Current Research Interests: Metaphysics (time, causation, laws of nature), epistemology (the justification of induction, the refutation of skepticism, and the philosophy of perception), philosophy of ...

This paper, forthcoming in the Rechtstheorie journal, discusses the development of the NESS analysis of natural causation in philosophy and law and (relatedly) the failure of the but-for/sine-qua ...

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of ...