Emergence and Causal Powers

Macdonald, Graham

doi:10.1007/s10670-007-9063-0

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“…Numerous non‐reductive physicalists – e.g., Shapiro and Sober (), Menzies (), Shapiro (2010; 2012), or Raatikainen () (cf. also MacDonald ) – claim that Woodward's () interventionist theory of causation paves the way for a non‐reductionist account of downward mental causation. Furthermore, Shapiro and Sober (, 247) contend that interventionism “provides a means by which to test which causal powers a macroproperty has”.…”

Section: The Incompatibility Of Non‐reductive Physicalism and Intervementioning

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Rendering Interventionism and Non-Reductive Physicalism Compatible

Baumgärtner

2013

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In recent years, the debate on the problem of causal exclusion has seen an 'interventionist turn'. Numerous non-reductive physicalists (e.g. Shapiro and Sober 2007) have argued that Woodward's (2003) interventionist theory of causation provides a means to empirically establish the existence of nonreducible mental-to-physical causation. By contrast, Baumgartner (2010) has presented an interventionist exclusion argument showing that interventionism is in fact incompatible with non-reductive physicalism. In response, a number of revised versions of interventionism have been suggested that are compatible with non-reductive physicalism. The first part of this paper reconstructs the definitional details of these modified interventionist theories. The second part investigates whether the modification proposed in Woodward (2011) is not only compatible with, but moreover supports nonreductive physicalism. In particular, it is examined whether that newest variant of interventionism allows for empirically resolving the problem of causal exclusion as envisaged by Shapiro, Sober and others.

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Section: The Incompatibility Of Non‐reductive Physicalism and Intervementioning

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Rendering Interventionism and Non-Reductive Physicalism Compatible

Baumgärtner

2013

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(Re)interpreting $$E=mc^2$$

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Emergence within social systems

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Emergence is typically discussed in the context of mental properties or the properties of the natural sciences, and accounts of emergence within these contexts tend to look a certain way. The emergent property is taken to emerge instantaneously out of, or to be proximately caused by, complex interaction of colocated entities. Here, I focus on the properties instantiated by the elements of certain systems discussed in social ontology, such as being a five-dollar bill or a pawn-movement, and I suggest that these properties emerge in a distinctive way. They emerge in part because of a system that is far beyond and typically before the object that instantiates them. I characterize how emergence occurs in these cases, juxtaposing it with how emergence is typically discussed. I then consider whether their emergence is best framed as weak or strong as these notions are characterized in the literature, and I reveal what debates are central to answering this question. Though I will not resolve these debates, I do show a collection of views that would vindicate these properties as strongly emergent and downwardly causing.

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Emergence and Causal Powers

Cited by 5 publications

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Rendering Interventionism and Non-Reductive Physicalism Compatible

Rendering Interventionism and Non-Reductive Physicalism Compatible

(Re)interpreting $$E=mc^2$$

Emergence within social systems

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