Grand debates over reduction and emergence are playing out across the sciences, but
these debates have reached a stalemate, with both sides declaring victory on empirical …

The first part of this article argues that if Craver's ([2007a],[2007b]) popular mutual
manipulability account (MM) of mechanistic constitution is embedded within Woodward's …

In this article, I present two conceptual problems for Craver's mutual manipulability account
of constitutive relevance in mechanisms. First, constitutive relevance threatens to imply …

Existing accounts of mechanistic causation are not suited for understanding causation in
biological and neural mechanisms because they do not have the resources to capture the …

I show that the recent account of levels in neuroscience proposed by Craver and Bechtel is
unsatisfactory since it fails to provide a plausible criterion for being at the same level and is …

Levels of organization are structures in nature, frequently identified by part-whole
relationships, with things at higher levels being composed of things at the next lower level …

Living systems have long been a puzzle to physics, leading some to claim that new laws of
physics are needed to explain them. Separating physical reality into the general (laws) and …

This paper aims to better motivate the naturalization of metaphysics by identifying and
criticizing a class of theories I call'free range metaphysics'. I argue that free range …

What are the root causes of mass violence terrorism? Examining this question led to a novel
hypothesis that violent radicalization leading to terrorism operates as a system of social …

Background: Establishing causal relationships is essential in biology and medicine.
However, various notions of causality have been operationalized at different times in various …