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64Causation in contextIn Huw Price & Richard Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited, Oxford University Press. 2007.33 page
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104The causal structure of mechanismsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (4): 796-805. 2012.Recently, a number of philosophers of science have claimed that much explanation in the sciences, especially in the biomedical and social sciences, is mechanistic explanation. I argue the account of mechanistic explanation provided in this tradition has not been entirely satisfactory, as it has neglected to describe in complete detail the crucial causal structure of mechanistic explanation. I show how the interventionist approach to causation, especially within a structural equations framework, …Read more
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515Probabilistic causation and causal processes: A critique of LewisPhilosophy of Science 56 (4): 642-663. 1989.This paper examines a promising probabilistic theory of singular causation developed by David Lewis. I argue that Lewis' theory must be made more sophisticated to deal with certain counterexamples involving pre-emption. These counterexamples appear to show that in the usual case singular causation requires an unbroken causal process to link cause with effect. I propose a new probabilistic account of singular causation, within the framework developed by Lewis, which captures this intuition
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66Mental causation in the physical worldIn Sophie Gibb, E. J. Lowe & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Mental Causation and Ontology, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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2HACKING, I.: "Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science" (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63 (n/a): 540. 1985.
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24thought-provoking exploration of the role of laws and models in the sciences, with In her alternative metaphysical framework, Cartwright relegates regularities in special emphasis on physics and economics. Cartwright proposes a novel metaphysics..
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36The Role of Counterfactual Dependence in Causal Judgements”In Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack & Sarah R. Beck (eds.), Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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253Possibility and conceivability: A response-dependent account of their connectionsIn Roberto Casati (ed.), European Review of Philosophy: Volume 3: Response-Dependence, Stanford: Csli Publications. pp. 255--277. 1998.In the history of modern philosophy systematic connections were assumed to hold between the modal concepts of logical possibility and necessity and the concept of conceivability. However, in the eyes of many contemporary philosophers, insuperable objections face any attempt to analyze the modal concepts in terms of conceivability. It is important to keep in mind that a philosophical explanation of modality does not have to take the form of a reductive analysis. In this paper I attempt to provide…Read more
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78Intrinsic versus extrinsic conceptions of causationIn H. Sankey (ed.), Laws and Causation: Australasian Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 313-329. 1999.
Peter Menzies
(1953 - 2015)
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |