My primary research interests centre on the philosophy of causation and its application. I have worked on counterfactual, contrastive, and interventionist theories of causation, and on issues of causal exclusion in science and in the philosophy of mind. I am also interested in how causation and causal explanation feature elsewhere in philosophy (especially in normative philosophy and epistemology) and beyond (in accident investigation, the assessment of safety systems, and the law). I am interested in how Humean's can capture the concept of emergence in the philosophy of science and philosophy of mind.

I also have an interest in the philoso…

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