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Vaassen, Bram ORCID: 0000-0001-6423-1324 . Causal exclusion without causal sufficiency. Synthese. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-0964

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DOI:10.1007/s11229-020-02723-y

Abstract

Some non-reductionists claim that so-called 'exclusion arguments' against their position rely on a notion ofcausal sufficiencythat is particularly problematic. I argue that such concerns about the role of causal sufficiency in exclusion arguments are relatively superficial since exclusionists can address them by reformulating exclusion arguments in terms ofphysical sufficiency. The resulting exclusion arguments still face familiar problems, but these are not related to the choice between causal sufficiency and physical sufficiency. The upshot is that objections to the notion of causal sufficiency can be answered in a straightforward fashion and that such objections therefore do not pose a serious threat to exclusion arguments.

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