The notion of'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics
and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century …

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging
what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe. Philosophers have …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …

A number of writers, myself included, have recently argued that an “interventionist” treatment
of causation of the sort defended in Woodward, 2003 can be used to cast light on so‐called …

Abstract In 'Proportionality in Causation, Part I: Theories', I presented various ways of
understanding the idea that causes which are 'proportional'to their effects are in some sense …

This book provides a critical philosophical analysis of the claim that contemporary cognitive
approaches to religion undermine theistic beliefs. Recent scientific work into the evolution …

The experimental interventions that provide evidence of causal relations are notably similar
to those that provide evidence of constitutive relevance relations. In the first two sections, I …

In contemporary philosophy of science, the consensus view seems to be that scientific
explanations describe mechanisms responsible for the phenomena to be explained. Two …

Levels of organization are structures in nature, frequently identified by part-whole
relationships, with things at higher levels being composed of things at the next lower level …

This article offers a new argument for the claim that there can be nondegenerate objective
chance in a deterministic world. Using a formal model of the relationship between different …