Building low level causation out of high level causation

Lee, Samuel

doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03231-3

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“…But that can't be right, if the whole is going to include emergent phenomena (as Schaffer accepts). 11 For recent pieces arguing for the priority of something like a higher level (though not through priority monism), see Lee (2021) and Saucedo (forthcoming). 12 List's view seems closest to this, though, a form of compatibilism (List, 2019a, Ch.5).…”

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Determination from Above

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2023

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There are many historical concerns about freedom that have come to be deemphasized in the free will literature itself—for instance, worries around the tyranny of government or the alienation of capitalism. It is hard to see how the current free will literature respects these, or indeed how they could even find expression. This paper seeks to show how these and other concerns can be reintegrated into the debate by appealing to a levels ontology. Recently, Christian List and others have considered how the notion of levels could be relevant to the free will debate. Invariably, however, the focus is on the significance of facts at lower levels. The threats come from below, from fundamental physics or neuroscience. Here, I aim to show how we can frame many interesting concerns about free will in terms of threats from above. After arguing that determination from above is no less threatening, I catalogue such concerns that might constitute threats to our freedom. Doing this not only allows us to show how these concerns relate to those standardly discussed, but it pushes us to expand our conception of freedom.

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“…1111For recent pieces arguing for the priority of something like a higher level (though not through priority monism), see Lee (2021) and Saucedo (forthcoming).…”

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Determination from Above

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2023

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“…I ask readers who are loath to equate causation with difference‐making to replace all occurrences of ‘cause’ with ‘difference‐making’ or ‘proportional causation’. (For a recent view distinguishing causation from difference‐making, see Lee, forthcoming. )…”

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