The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences

Emergence in Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Menzies, Peter ^a   List, Christian ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal autonomy; Causal explanation; Causation; Counterfactuals; Difference making; Multiple realizability; Physicalism; Properties; Realization; Realization sensitivity; Special sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921259279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583621.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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