Interlevel causation from an interventionist point of view Universiteit Antwerpen
Interlevel causation, broadly defined as the causal infuence of an entity at one level on an entity at another level, is regularly rejected from a philosophical perspective. This rejection seems to conflict with both everyday experience and scientfic practice in the special sciences. Nowhere is this made clearer than in the context of mental causation, where the denial of downward causation has led to the proliferation of epiphenomenalist ...