Several authors have argued that causes differ in the degree to which they are 'specific'to
their effects. Woodward has used this idea to enrich his influential interventionist theory of …

This book offers a novel defence of a highly contested philosophical position: biological
natural kind essentialism. This theory is routinely and explicitly rejected for its purported …

It would be useful if the interventionist account of causation, in addition to distinguishing
causes from non-causes, could define various desirable properties of causal relationships …

I use some recent formal work on measuring causation to explore a suggestion by James
Woodward: that the notion of causal specificity can clarify the distinction in biology between …

Paul Griffiths et al. have proposed a quantitative measure of causal specificity and used it to
assess various attempts to single out genetic causes as being causally more specific than …

The interventionist account provides us with several notions permitting the qualification of
causal relationships. In recent years, there has been a push toward formalizing these …

We take the potentialities that are studied in the biological sciences (eg, totipotency) to be an
important subtype of biological dispositions. The goal of this paper is twofold: first, we want …

The most popular account of genetic information in contemporary philosophy is'
teleosemantics'. Physically identical genes can have entirely different information content if …

Abstract Waters's (2007) actual difference making and Weber's (2013, 2017) biological
normality approaches to causal selection have received many criticisms, some of which miss …

Invariance is one of several dimensions of causal relationships within the interventionist
account. The more invariant a relationship between two variables, the more the relationship …