id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4ezf7fhkfzepljgkcmfrc4yoce Agustín Vicente Where to Look for Emergent Properties 2013 35 .pdf application/pdf 11259 606 61 causal world "exuberant" by making non-physical functional and relational properties Philosophers discuss whether there are proper (i.e. nonreducible) non-physical properties or whether, as reductive physicalists claim, explainable from knowledge of the causal powers of basic physical properties. functional or relational properties.6 My claim, thus, is that in selection processes these 7 By this I only mean that selection processes have an effect on which properties have causal powers. relational property in a causal explanation. to think this is that physics already has explanations for the events that these properties explain—see 3. The case for the causal efficacy of non-physical properties Physical causal explanations cannot explain everything It does seem as though non-physical properties play a causal role in selection The task now is to show that some non-physical explanations do provide causal independent and complete causes/causal explanations of one event. The physical explanation, on its way to explaining why the antelope died instead ./cache/work_4ezf7fhkfzepljgkcmfrc4yoce.pdf ./txt/work_4ezf7fhkfzepljgkcmfrc4yoce.txt