We systematically mistreat psychological phenomena, both logically and clinically. This
article explores three contentions: that the dominant discourse in modern cognitive, affective …

A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist
consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That …

This paper examines methodological issues raised by revealed preference theory in
economics: particularly contemporary revealed preference theory. The paper has three …

This paper examines the relationship between physical theories of causation and theories of
difference-making. It is plausible to think that such theories are compatible with one another …

A common theme in the contemporary medical model of psychiatry is that
pathophysiological processes are centrally involved in the explanation, evaluation, and …

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of Causation in the Social and Biological Sciences Alexander Reutlinger Page 4 © Alexander …

The primacy of physics generates a philosophical problem that the naturalist must solve in
order to be entitled to an egalitarian acceptance of the ontological commitments he or she …

Causes always seem to come prior to their effects. What might explain this asymmetry?
Causation's temporal asymmetry isn't straightforwardly due to a temporal asymmetry in the …

Bertrand Russell famously argued that causation is not part of the fundamental physical
description of the world, describing the notion of cause as “a relic of a bygone age”(Russell …

This article aims to contribute to the ongoing task of clarifying the relationships between
reality, probability, and nonlocality in quantum physics. It is in part stimulated by …