Building low level causation out of high level causation

Abstract

and two anonymous referees for comments on drafts. Special thanks are due to Laura Franklin-Hall for extensive comments across a number of drafts. And especially special thanks are due to Michael Strevens and Cian Dorr for time and time again helping me to enormously improve the paper through both discussion and their detailed written comments.

Determination from Above

“…But that can't be right, if the whole is going to include emergent phenomena (as Schaffer accepts). 11 For recent pieces arguing for the priority of something like a higher level (though not through priority monism), see Lee (2021) and Saucedo (forthcoming). 12 List's view seems closest to this, though, a form of compatibilism (List, 2019a, Ch.5).…”

“…1111For recent pieces arguing for the priority of something like a higher level (though not through priority monism), see Lee (2021) and Saucedo (forthcoming).…”

List and Menzies on High‐Level Causation

“…I ask readers who are loath to equate causation with difference‐making to replace all occurrences of ‘cause’ with ‘difference‐making’ or ‘proportional causation’. (For a recent view distinguishing causation from difference‐making, see Lee, forthcoming. )…”