List and Menzies on High‐Level Causation

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 102 (4):570-591 (2021)
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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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Jens Jäger
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