This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts
of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that …

I respond to Vosselman and De Loo's (2023) critique of my earlier paper on agential realism,
representation theory, and accounting information systems (Weber, 2020). In that paper, I …

Abstract The leitmotif of Mario Bunge's work was that the philosophy of science should be
informed by a comprehensive scientific philosophy, and vice versa; with both firmly rooted in …

If an ordinary object causes an event, and if its atoms acting in concert cause the same
event, then the event in question is overdetermined by two independent causes. The …

In The Possibility of Metaphysics, Jonathan Lowe hoped that the future would bring a causal
account of persistence. I argue that my account of causation in terms of interaction between …

The aim of this chapter is to critically discuss four rival views about how to best make sense
of causation as a real mind-independent feature of the world that involves the production of …

The widespread mistrust of metaphysics—the main obstacle to the unification of physics and
philosophy—is based on the myth that metaphysical claims cannot be falsified or verified …

According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing
another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of …