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529List and Menzies on High‐Level CausationPacific Philosophical Quarterly 102 (4): 570-591. 2021.I raise two objections against Christian List and Peter Menzies' influential account of high-level causation. Improving upon some of Stephen Yablo's earlier work, I develop an alternative theory which evades both objections. The discussion calls into question List and Menzies' main contention, namely, that the exclusion principle, applied to difference-making, is false.
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351Immortal Beauty: Does Existence Confirm Reincarnation?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (4): 789-807. 2022.I argue that a popular view about self-locating evidence implies that there are cases in which agents have surprisingly strong evidence for their own reincarnation. The central case is an ‘Immortal Beauty' scenario, modelled after the well-known Sleeping Beauty puzzle. I argue that if the popular ‘thirder’ solution to the puzzle is correct, then Immortal Beauty should be confident that she's going to be reincarnated. The essay also examines another pro-reincarnation argument due to Michael Hueme…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Metaphysics |
Causation |
Decision Theory |
Consequentialism |