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Gibbons, J. "Mental Causation without Downward Causation." Philosophical Review 115, no. 1 (2006): 79–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-115-1-79.

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Gibbons, John. "Mental Causation without Downward Causation." Philosophical Review 115, no. 1 (2006): 79–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-003.

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Engelhardt, Jeff. "Mental Causation is Not Just Downward Causation." Ratio 30, no. 1 (2015): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rati.12111.

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Steward, Helen. "Action as Downward Causation." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 80 (May 16, 2017): 195–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1358246117000145.

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AbstractIn this paper, I try to argue that the recognition that non-human animals are relevant to the free will problem delivers interesting new ways of thinking about the central metaphysical issues at the heart of that problem. Some such dividends, I suggest, are the following: (i) that the problem of free will can be considered to be just a more specific version of a general question concerning how agency is to be fitted into the natural world; (ii) that action can be usefully regarded as an especially interesting form of downward causation; and that (iii) the metaphysical possibility of do

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Kistler, Max. "Mechanisms and downward causation." Philosophical Psychology 22, no. 5 (2009): 595–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515080903238914.

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Menuge, Angus. "Is Downward Causation Possible?" Philosophia Christi 11, no. 1 (2009): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pc20091117.

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Bitbol, Michel. "Downward causation without foundations." Synthese 185, no. 2 (2010): 233–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9723-5.

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Chen, Xiaoping. "How does downward causation exist?—A comment on Kim’s elimination of downward causation." Frontiers of Philosophy in China 5, no. 4 (2010): 652–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11466-010-0120-4.

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Juarrero, Alicia. "Downward Causation: Polanyi and Prigogine." Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 40, no. 3 (2013): 4–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/traddisc2013/201440330.

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이영의. "Enactivism, Emergence, and Downward Causation." PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE ll, no. 28 (2018): 118–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33639/ptc.2018..28.006.

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Stephan, Achim. "EMERGENTISM, IRREDUCIBILITY, AND DOWNWARD CAUSATION." Grazer Philosophische studien 65, no. 1 (2002): 77–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18756735-90000794.

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Robinson, William S. "Zooming in on Downward Causation." Biology & Philosophy 20, no. 1 (2005): 117–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-0414-4.

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Bishop, Robert C. "Downward causation in fluid convection." Synthese 160, no. 2 (2006): 229–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9112-2.

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Campbell, Richard J., and Mark H. Bickhard. "Physicalism, Emergence and Downward Causation." Axiomathes 21, no. 1 (2010): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10516-010-9128-6.

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Hulswit, Menno. "How Causal is Downward Causation?" Journal for General Philosophy of Science 36, no. 2 (2005): 261–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10838-006-7153-3.

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Bowker, John. "God, Spiritual Formation, and Downward Causation." Theology 107, no. 836 (2004): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x0410700202.

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Lewis, Marc D. "The Slippery Slope of Downward Causation." Human Development 54, no. 2 (2011): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000327679.

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Capes, Justin A. "Can ‘Downward Causation’ Save Free Will?" Philosophia 38, no. 1 (2009): 131–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-009-9191-7.

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Kroedel, Thomas. "A simple argument for downward causation." Synthese 192, no. 3 (2014): 841–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0600-5.

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Flack, Jessica C. "Coarse-graining as a downward causation mechanism." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375, no. 2109 (2017): 20160338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0338.

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Downward causation is the controversial idea that ‘higher’ levels of organization can causally influence behaviour at ‘lower’ levels of organization. Here I propose that we can gain traction on downward causation by being operational and examining how adaptive systems identify regularities in evolutionary or learning time and use these regularities to guide behaviour. I suggest that in many adaptive systems components collectively compute their macroscopic worlds through coarse-graining. I further suggest we move from simple feedback to downward causation when components tune behaviour in resp

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Woodward, James. "Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation." Philosophy of Science 87, no. 5 (2020): 857–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/710631.

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Green, Sara. "Scale Dependency and Downward Causation in Biology." Philosophy of Science 85, no. 5 (2018): 998–1011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699758.

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Jaeger, Luc, and Erin R. Calkins. "Downward causation by information control in micro-organisms." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0045.

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The concepts of functional equivalence classes and information control in living systems are useful to characterize downward (or top-down) causation by feedback information control in synthetic biology. Herein, we re-analyse published experiments of microbiology and synthetic biology that demonstrate the existence of several classes of functional equivalence in microbial organisms. Classes of functional equivalence from the bacterial operating system, which processes and controls the information encoded in the genome, can readily be interpreted as strong evidence, if not demonstration, of top-

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Eronen, Markus I. "No Levels, No Problems: Downward Causation in Neuroscience." Philosophy of Science 80, no. 5 (2013): 1042–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/673898.

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Christensen, J., and J. Kallestrup. "Counterfactuals and downward causation: a reply to Zhong." Analysis 72, no. 3 (2012): 513–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/ans070.

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Parkkinen, Veli-Pekka. "Experiment, Downward Causation, and Interventionist Levels of Explanation." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 30, no. 3 (2016): 245–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02698595.2017.1316116.

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Moore, Dwayne. "Counterfactuals, Autonomy and Downward Causation: Reply to Zhong." Philosophia 41, no. 3 (2013): 831–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9444-3.

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Zhong, Lei. "Why the Counterfactualist Should Still Worry About Downward Causation." Erkenntnis 80, no. 1 (2014): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9618-9.

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Fitzhugh, Kirk. "Sequence Data, Phylogenetic Inference, and Implications of Downward Causation." Acta Biotheoretica 64, no. 2 (2016): 133–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-016-9277-0.

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Tabaczek, Mariusz. "THE METAPHYSICS OF DOWNWARD CAUSATION: REDISCOVERING THE FORMAL CAUSE." Zygon® 48, no. 2 (2013): 380–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12012.

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Meyering, Theo C. "Physicalism and Downward Causation in Psychology and the Special Sciences." Inquiry 43, no. 2 (2000): 181–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/002017400407744.

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Soto, A. M., C. Sonnenschein, and P. A. Miquel. "On physicalism and Downward Causation in Developmental and Cancer Biology." Acta Biotheoretica 56, no. 4 (2008): 257–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10441-008-9052-y.

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Noble, Denis. "Genes and causation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 366, no. 1878 (2008): 3001–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2008.0086.

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Relating genotypes to phenotypes is problematic not only owing to the extreme complexity of the interactions between genes, proteins and high-level physiological functions but also because the paradigms for genetic causality in biological systems are seriously confused. This paper examines some of the misconceptions, starting with the changing definitions of a gene, from the cause of phenotype characters to the stretches of DNA. I then assess whether the ‘digital’ nature of DNA sequences guarantees primacy in causation compared to non-DNA inheritance, whether it is meaningful or useful to refe

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Scerri, Eric R. "Top-down causation regarding the chemistry–physics interface: a sceptical view." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0061.

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This article examines two influential authors who have addressed the interface between the fields of chemistry and physics and have reached opposite conclusions about whether or not emergence and downward causation represent genuine phenomena. While McLaughlin concludes that emergence is impossible in the light of quantum mechanics, Hendry regards issues connected with the status of molecular structure as supporting emergence. The present author suggests that one should not be persuaded by either of these arguments and pleads for a form of agnosticism over the reality of emergence and downward

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Tabaczek, Mariusz. "Emergence and Downward Causation Reconsidered in Terms of the Aristotelian-Thomistic View of Causation and Divine Action." Scientia et Fides 4, no. 1 (2016): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/setf.2016.010.

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Rigato, Joana. "Downward causation and supervenience: the non-reductionist’s extra argument for incompatibilism." Philosophical Explorations 21, no. 3 (2017): 384–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1390146.

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Okasha, Samir. "Emergence, hierarchy and top-down causation in evolutionary biology." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0046.

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The concept of emergence and the related notion of ‘downward causation’ have arisen in numerous branches of science, and have also been extensively discussed in philosophy. Here, I examine emergence and downward causation in relation to evolutionary biology. I focus on the old, but ongoing discussion in evolutionary biology over the ‘levels of selection’ question: which level(s) of the biological hierarchy natural selection acts at, e.g. the gene, individual, group or species level? The concept of emergence has arisen in the levels-of-selection literature as a putative way of distinguishing be

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Stringer, Ryan. "Ethical Emergentism and Moral Causation." Journal of Moral Philosophy 18, no. 4 (2021): 331–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20213272.

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Abstract This paper focuses on a recently articulated, emergentist conception of ethical naturalism and its commitment to causal efficacy, or the idea that moral properties have causal powers, along with its supporting commitment to moral causation. After I reconstruct the theory, I explain how it offers some interesting theoretical benefits to moral realists in virtue of its commitment to causal efficacy. Then, after locating some examples of moral causation in support of this commitment, I present and respond to five objections to such causation, which all threaten to undermine this support.

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Barutta, Joaquín, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Carlos Cornejo, and Agustín Ibáñez. "Neurodynamics of Mind: The Arrow Illusion of Conscious Intentionality as Downward Causation." Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 44, no. 2 (2010): 127–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9117-8.

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Whitehead, Clay C. "Toward a “New” Paradigm of Therapeutic Action: Neuro–Psychoanalysis and Downward Causation." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 33, no. 4 (2005): 637–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jaap.2005.33.4.637.

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Bertolaso, Marta. "Uncoupling Mereology and Supervenience: A Dual Framework for Emergence and Downward Causation." Axiomathes 27, no. 6 (2017): 705–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10516-017-9361-3.

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Barutta, Joaquín, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Carlos Cornejo, and Agustín Ibáñez. "Erratum to: Neurodynamics of Mind: The Arrow Illusion of Conscious Intentionality as Downward Causation." Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 44, no. 2 (2010): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12124-010-9124-9.

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Ashikaga, Hiroshi, and Ryan G. James. "Inter-scale information flow as a surrogate for downward causation that maintains spiral waves." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 28, no. 7 (2018): 075306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5017534.

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Davies, P. C. W. "The epigenome and top-down causation." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 42–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0070.

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Genes store heritable information, but actual gene expression often depends on many so-called epigenetic factors, both physical and chemical, external to DNA. Epigenetic changes can be both reversible and heritable. The genome is associated with a physical object (DNA) with a specific location, whereas the epigenome is a global, systemic, entity. Furthermore, genomic information is tied to specific coded molecular sequences stored in DNA. Although epigenomic information can be associated with certain non-DNA molecular sequences, it is mostly not. Therefore, there does not seem to be a stored ‘

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Seed, Martin J., Melanie Carder, Matthew Gittins, et al. "Emerging trends in the UK incidence of occupational asthma: should we be worried?" Occupational and Environmental Medicine 76, no. 6 (2019): 396–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2018-105414.

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While 15% of adult-onset asthma is estimated to have an occupational cause, there has been evidence of a downward trend in occupational asthma incidence in several European countries since the start of this millennium. However, recent data from The Health and Occupation Reporting network in the UK have suggested a possible reversal of this downward trend since 2014. We present these data and discuss possible explanations for this observed change in incidence trend. A high index of suspicion of occupational causation in new-onset asthma cases continues to be important, whether or not the recent

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Noble, Denis. "A theory of biological relativity: no privileged level of causation." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 55–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0067.

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Must higher level biological processes always be derivable from lower level data and mechanisms, as assumed by the idea that an organism is completely defined by its genome? Or are higher level properties necessarily also causes of lower level behaviour, involving actions and interactions both ways? This article uses modelling of the heart, and its experimental basis, to show that downward causation is necessary and that this form of causation can be represented as the influences of initial and boundary conditions on the solutions of the differential equations used to represent the lower level

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ELHANI, C. "On Some Theoretical Grounds for an Organism-centered Biology: Property Emergence, Supervenience, and Downward Causation." Theory in Biosciences 119, no. 3-4 (2000): 234–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/1431-7613-00017.

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El-Hani, Charbel Niño, and Claus Emmeche. "On some theoretical grounds for an organism-centered biology: Property emergence, supervenience, and downward causation." Theory in Biosciences 119, no. 3-4 (2000): 234–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12064-000-0018-0.

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Atmanspacher, Harald. "Identifying mental states from neural states under mental constraints." Interface Focus 2, no. 1 (2011): 74–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2011.0058.

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This article emphasizes how the recently proposed interlevel relation of contextual emergence for scientific descriptions combines ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ kinds of influence. As emergent behaviour arises from features pertaining to lower level descriptions, there is a clear bottom-up component. But, in general, this is not sufficient to formulate interlevel relations stringently. Higher level contextual constraints are needed to equip the lower level description with those details appropriate for the desired higher level description to emerge. These contextual constraints yield some kind of

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Thibault, Paul J. "The Dialogical Integration of the Brain in Social Semiosis: Edelman and the Case for Downward Causation." Mind, Culture, and Activity 7, no. 4 (2000): 291–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327884mca0704_04.

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