Amin, Ramy (2024) The Philosopher’s Error: Levels, Causation, and Constraints. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

Downward causation plays a central role in the debate around levels of mechanism. Both levels’ enthusiasts and skeptics reject it, arguing that it is incoherent to conceive of wholes causing the parts which constitute them. In this paper, I advance an argument from causal constraints against claims of the unintelligibility of constitutive downward causation, arguing that constitution relations neither exhaust the totality of relations that a proper whole is subject to, nor do they preclude another type of relation that a proper whole can have with respect to another proper whole.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Amin, Ramy
Keywords:	Levels of mechanism, Downward Causation, Causal Constraints
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience
Depositing User:	Ramy Amin
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2024 02:59
Last Modified:	01 Jun 2024 02:59
Item ID:	23510
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience
Date:	2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23510

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