Index

A

Achinstein, 217

aggregative, aggregativity, non-aggregative, non-aggregativity, 164–166, 202, 225

Alexander, 152, 168, 174, 186–188

analytical, 59, 63, 67, 77, 99–101, 104, 107, 110, 114–115, 117–118, 134, 156, 270

antidote, 102–104, 108, 113–114

Antony, 210, 212, 218

Armstrong, 92–94, 98, 112, 117, 119–123, 126, 134–135, 141, 153–154, 189, 206, 221, 266

B

Baker, 208

Batterman, 29, 179

Bechtel, 61, 185, 223

Beckermann, 150

Bedau, 169, 185

Bennett, 98, 237, 243–244

Bickle, 23, 25–26, 28–33, 40–42, 44, 47, 49–51, 54, 56, 64, 263–264

Bird, 101–103, 105, 111, 114, 132–134

Blackburn, 116–117, 197

Block, 68, 77–78, 126, 131, 243

Braddon-Mitchell, 208

Broad, 3, 49, 70, 81, 86, 93, 145–153, 161–162, 168–169, 171–172, 186, 188, 202–203, 222, 252

Bunge, 174–175

Byrne, 77–78, 80

C

Campbell (Donald), 222, 256

Campbell (Keith), 216

Carnap, 92, 104, 133–134, 214

Carroll, 214

Cartwright, 104, 116, 212–213

categorical, 48, 81–85, 92–93, 99, 110, 112, 115–125, 129, 135, 271–272

categorical basis, 8, 81, 93, 101, 103, 114, 118, 120–126, 129, 131–133

causal closure, 209, 222–223, 227, 232, 238–239, 249, 259, 272–273

causal efficacy, causally efficacious, 3, 8, 30, 45, 91–94, 96, 97, 99, 101, 110, 112–115, 118–120, 125–126, 135–137, 190, 204–206, 207, 208, 210, 211–212, 215–219, 222, 224, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231–232, 239, 244, 248–249, 251–252, 258, 266, 270–273

causal power(s), 8, 92, 95, 99, 117–119, 124, 138, 143, 151–152, 168, 182, 189–190, 198–202, 204–206, 222, 230–232, 244, 250–253, 256–259, 266–267, 269–270

causal responsibility, 97–98, 104, 115, 208, 211–212, 214–215, 217–218, 225–226, 229–230, 233–234, 236–240, 249, 251, 269

causal role, 13, 79, 84, 98, 121, 208, 217, 222, 241

causally responsible, 3, 97–98, 101, 112, 114–115, 119, 123–125, 135, 211–212, 214–215, 218, 224, 230, 233, 236–237, 239–240, 244–246, 250, 252, 254–255, 270

Causey, 9, 13, 23, 56, 93, 119, 144, 266

Chalmers, 62, 70–80, 83, 86–87, 89, 126, 169, 208, 227, 244, 269

Charles, 195

Churchland (Patricia), 60

Churchland (Paul), 23, 25–26, 29, 31–33, 35, 38–45, 59–60, 264–266

co-evolution, 46, 59–60

composition law(s), 5, 43, 49, 63–64, 138, 146–149, 153, 158, 161–164, 167–170, 172–173, 175, 177, 181–183, 187–188, 190, 193, 198, 200, 205, 218–219, 234–235, 239, 252–253, 266–267

conceptual analysis, 6–7, 71, 73, 75, 77, 80–81, 88–89, 264

counterfactual, 24, 29, 75, 92, 99–100, 102–103, 105, 111, 118, 213–215, 218, 237

Crane, 208, 218, 234

Crisp, 247

Cummins, 138

D

Darden, 6, 59, 207

Davidson, 40–41, 67–68, 97, 119, 195, 210–212, 216–217

Descartes, 2

disposition, dispositional property, 8, 10, 14, 48, 51, 57, 82, 91–99, 101–137, 181, 258, 270–271

downward causation, 200, 221–223, 227, 232, 235–240, 251–253, 255–256, 259

downward law, 20–21

Dretske, 58, 207

Duhem, 10, 159

E

Earman, 213

Eells, 214

Ehring, 216

eliminativism, 3, 54, 206–208, 250, 262–263

emergence, 4–7, 28, 43, 59, 70, 137–146, 148–155, 157, 161–166, 168–170, 172–175, 177, 179–182, 184–185, 187, 192, 194–205, 228, 234, 249, 267, 269–270; diachronic emergence, 174, 180, 182, 200, 249; synchronic emergence, 141–144, 174, 181–182, 199–201, 248; weak emergence, 50, 53, 69, 139–140, 145, 155, 161–163, 167, 182–183, 185, 189, 192, 195, 201, 203, 212–214

Endicott, 26, 41–42, 45, 60–61, 153

epiphenomenal, 8, 93, 118–120, 125, 135, 137, 205, 210, 217, 219, 225, 233, 248, 257, 271

exclusion, causal exclusion, causal-explanatory exclusion, 131, 192, 210, 216, 221, 227, 232–233, 235–236, 238–239, 242–243, 247–248, 259, 272

F

Feigl, 27, 152–153, 175

Feyerabend, 24, 27

Fodor, 18–20, 67, 206, 212–213

functional, 21, 23, 26, 58, 61, 63, 67, 79–84, 88, 94, 103, 114, 118–120, 125–126, 131, 153, 183, 219, 225, 231, 239–240, 248, 251, 257, 270–271

functional analysis, 79

functional property, 61, 183, 219, 231, 239, 251

G

Gallistel, 129

Gibbs, 37–39, 44, 265

Girill, 191

Glennan, 207, 212

Gold and Stoljar, 26, 46–47, 52, 56, 58, 61

Goodman, 92, 102, 116

Grelling, 148, 156, 160

H

Haas-Spohn, 74

Hardcastle, 212

Hardin, 46, 176

Harré, 116, 124

Hawkins, 26, 46–48, 53–55, 60

Heil, 117, 216–217, 227

Hempel, 15, 27, 100, 134, 146, 148, 151, 154, 156, 160, 172, 212, 214

Henle, 148

Hering, 175

heteropathic, 167–168, 170

Holland, 88, 138, 168, 185, 195

Hooker, 13, 23, 25–26, 28, 30–32, 40, 44, 64, 264

Horgan, 69, 73, 195–196, 214–215

Hume, 142

Humphreys, 143, 195, 198–202

Hurvich, 175

Hüttemann, 149, 151, 163

I

indexical, 73–75, 106; hidden indexicality, 74

irreducible, irreducibility, 2–5, 18, 37, 54, 62, 64, 67–69, 79, 88, 134, 138, 145, 151, 169, 182, 194–195, 197, 206, 226, 237, 262, 265, 269

J

Jackson, 70–78, 80, 86–87, 89, 92, 94, 117–118, 125–126, 131, 208, 244, 269

Jacob, 233, 247

James, 157, 191

Jameson, 175

Johnston, 103

Joseph, 115, 212

K

Kandel, 26, 46–49, 51, 53–55, 58, 60

Kaplan, 73

Kemeny, 16, 26–27

Kim, 8, 22, 45, 69–71, 79, 119–120, 126, 141–142, 153, 188–190, 195–197, 200, 202, 205–207, 209, 215, 219–223, 226–236, 238–244, 246–251, 253, 256–257, 266, 269, 271–272

Kincaid, 21–22, 61, 84

Kirk, 70–72

Klee, 191, 222–223, 226

Kornblith, 244

Kripke, 74–75, 125, 192–194

Kronz, 172–174

Krüger, 33, 38–39

Kuhn, 24, 27

L

LePore, 213

Levine, 212, 218

Lewes, 148, 152, 167–168, 170

Lewis, 73, 78, 103, 107, 131, 139, 183, 208, 214, 230

linear, 43, 51, 159–160, 166–175, 177, 181, 183–184, 252

Lipton, 105, 109

Lloyd Morgan, 152, 186

Locke, 93, 185–186

Loewer, 213, 234

Lowe, 115–116, 143, 206–207, 217, 248–249

M

Macdonald, 216–217

Machamer, 207

Mackie, 96, 99, 121

Malcolm, 227

Malzkorn, 103, 105–106

Marras, 20, 22, 215, 236–237, 247

Martin, 95, 102–103, 105, 107, 117

Maull, 6, 59

McCauley, 42, 59–60

McLaughlin, 146–148, 150–153, 168, 172, 195, 210, 212–213, 215, 217

mechanism, 3, 13, 21–22, 26, 46–50, 52, 54–56, 58, 60–62, 83, 103, 111, 121, 123, 129, 175–176, 186–187, 207, 223, 226, 237, 253, 271

Mellor, 92, 115, 130, 134, 208, 218

mental causation, 45, 200, 208, 210, 213, 216–217, 221, 226–229, 232–235, 238, 243, 249, 253, 255–256

Menzies, 131, 183, 220

mereological, 30, 141–142, 182, 189, 198–199, 201, 228, 231–232, 266

microbased, 188, 194

Mill, 96, 139, 147–148, 152, 166–171

Miller, 86

multi-realizable, multi-realizability, 2, 18–20, 22–23, 28, 64, 67, 84–86, 138, 190, 193–194, 263, 271

multi-track, 92, 130, 132, 135

Mumford, 95, 102–105, 115, 117–118, 124–125, 133

N

Nagel (Ernest), 13, 15–17, 19, 22, 26–29, 37, 40, 42–44, 58–59, 63–64, 135, 152–153, 172, 191–192, 264–265

Nagel (Thomas), 191–192

Newman, 184

Nickles, 29–31, 182

Noë, 62, 227

noncausal, 235

Noordhof, 217

O

O’Connor, 197

O’Regan, 62, 227

Oppenheim, 15–16, 26–27, 146, 148, 151, 154, 156, 160, 172, 214

overdetermination, 125, 136, 202, 209, 232–234, 236, 242–243, 247–248, 272

P

panpsychism, 190–192

Pap, 154

Papineau, 248

Pargetter, 92, 94, 118, 125

Pereboom, 244

physicalism, 11–12, 67–73, 141, 145–146, 168–169, 171, 192, 195, 201, 203–204, 206–207, 222, 227–228, 231, 237, 250, 257–259, 261–264, 267, 269, 272–273

Pietroski, 109, 212–213

Place, 1, 9, 42, 48, 95–97, 107, 112, 125, 143–144, 171, 176, 200–201, 204–205, 209–210, 213–216, 218, 227, 242, 245, 247, 253, 261

Popper, 24, 27, 116–117, 152, 171, 174, 214, 222, 255

Price, 122

Prior, 92, 94, 106, 118, 125

Putnam, 27, 67, 74, 100–101, 183, 206, 212

Q

Quine, 13, 112, 121, 262

R

Ramsey, 139

realization, 3, 22–23, 79–80, 83–84, 86, 183, 231, 233, 239–241, 257, 271; MM realization, 83, 86; RO realization, 83–84, 86

reduction, 3–6, 9, 11–33, 35, 37–47, 49, 51–53, 55–65, 67, 70, 72, 79–89, 91, 93–94, 115, 119–126, 129, 131–139, 144, 153–154, 172, 182, 194–195, 203, 205, 207–208, 226, 263–268, 271; conceptual, 31–32, 70; functional, 23, 79, 119, 153; heterogeneous, 15–16, 45, 63; homogeneous, 15, 41, 45, 63; identificatory, 43; interlevel, 30, 32, 42, 61, 64–65; intertheoretical, 27, 42, 265; intralevel, 30–32, 42, 64, 182; local, 22–23; microreduction, 29–30, 79, 81, 83, 122–125, 129, 133, 191, 226, 271; retentive, 41

reductionism, 2–5, 19, 40, 49, 58, 63–64, 68, 163, 195, 206–207, 263; anti-reductionism, 19, 40, 58, 68, 206

Rescorla, 52–55, 58, 60, 218, 237–238, 245, 258, 263

resultant and emergent properties, 4–5, 7, 137–157, 159–175, 177–191, 193, 195, 197–205, 222, 226, 228, 234, 238, 257–259, 263, 267, 269–272

Rey, 100, 109, 212–213, 218, 248

Richardson, 21–22, 185

Robb, 212, 216–217

Roberts, 213

Rosenberg, 26, 85, 123, 224, 226

Rueger, 29–30, 179–183

Ryle, 95, 97, 122, 128, 130, 134–135

S

Salmon, 143, 169

Schaffner, 23, 25–28, 30–32, 42, 44–46, 60, 87, 263, 265–266

Schrenk, 105, 109

Schröder, 222, 247–248

Schurz, 213

Searle, 142–144, 247

second-order, 70, 80–81, 98, 112, 118–119, 125–126, 153, 157, 219, 231, 239, 243, 250–251, 257, 272

Shepard, 126–128, 175, 177

Shoemaker, 115, 117, 198

Sklar, 24, 38, 43, 86

Slors, 233

Sosa, 217

Sperry, 151–152, 174, 222–223

Spohn, 74, 106–107

Squires, 98–99

Stalnaker, 73–74, 77–78

Stephan, 140–141, 148, 152, 154, 169, 171, 174

Steward, 96–97

Strawson, 206

strict implication, 70, 72

supervenience, 68–72, 141–142, 194–203, 227–228, 231–232

synthetic model, 40, 43–45, 49, 59, 64, 265–266

T

Teller, 154

Terzidis, 149, 151, 163

Thomasson, 233

Tiehen, 172–174

topological, 128, 175, 178–179, 183, 204, 270

truth-maker, 97–99, 131–133

Tully, 154

two-dimensional semantics, 73

V

Van Cleve, 157, 172, 197–198

van Eck, 61

W

Wagner, 54–55, 218, 237–238, 245, 258, 263

Warfield, 247

Wimsatt, 26, 29, 31, 60, 153, 164–167, 182, 194–195

Witmer, 237, 243–244

Wittgenstein, 119

Wong, 202

Woodger, 16, 26–27

Worley, 221

Y

Yablo, 70, 217, 219–220