Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation

Chapter 1: Downward Causation: an Opinionated Introduction

Michele Paolini Paoletti and Francesco Orilia

Part I: Downward Causation and the Metaphysics of Causation

Chapter 2: Three Grades of Downward Causation

Francesco Orilia and Michele Paolini Paoletti

Chapter 3: Downward Causation

John Heil

Chapter 4: Higher Level, Downward and Specific Causation

Max Kistler

Chapter 5: Powers and Downward Causation

Erasmus Mayr

Chapter 6: Emergence and Demergence

Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford

Chapter 7: Power Mereology, Structural Powers versus Substantial Powers

Anna Marmodoro

Part II: Downward Causation and the Sciences

Chapter 8: The Use of Downward Causation in Condensed Matter Physics

Stewart J. Clark and Tom Lancaster

Chapter 9: Prospects for Strong Emergence in Chemistry

Robin F. Hendry

Chapter 10: Causality and Levels of Explanation in Biology

Marta Bertolaso and Marco Buzzoni

Chapter 11: The Interlacing of Upward and Downward Causation in Complex Living Systems. On Interactions, Self-Organization, Emergency and Wholeness

Luciano Boi

Chapter 12: Top-Down Causation in Biology and Neuroscience: Control Hierarchies

William Bechtel

Chapter 13: Early Complexity in Human Development

Francois Jouen and Michele Molina

Chapter 14: Scientific Emergentism and Its Move Beyond (Direct) Downward Causation

Carl Gillett

Part III: Downward Causation, Mind and Agency

Chapter 15: The Mental Causation Debate and Qua Problems

Sophie C. Gibb

Chapter 16: Agent-Causation - Neither Upward Nor Downward

Uwe Meixner

Chapter 17 The Compatibility of Downward Causation and Emergence

Simone Cozzano

Chapter 18: The Views on Mental Downward Causation

Mario De Caro and Matteo Grasso