List of Contributors

Sarah Broadie is Wardlaw Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. As Sarah Waterlow she has published Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics and Passage and Possibility (both Oxford University Press, 1982); as Sarah Broadie Ethics with Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (with Christopher Rowe). Her collection Aristotle and Beyond: Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007) includes several pieces on causation.

John W. Carroll is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. His publications include ‘Property‐Level Causation?’ in Philosophical Studies 63 (1991) and Laws of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Kenneth Clatterbaugh is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. His publications include ‘Descartes's Causal Likeness Principle’ in Philosophical Review 89 (1980); ‘Cartesian Causality, Explanation, and Divine Concurrence’ in History of Philosophy Quarterly 12 (1995); and The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy 1637–1739 (Routledge, 1999).

Helen Daly is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Arizona.

David Danks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. His publications include ‘Causal Learning from Observations and Manipulations’ in M. Lovett and P. Shah (eds.), Thinking with Data (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007); and ‘The Supposed Competition between Theories of Human Causal Inference’ in Philosophical Psychology 18 (2005).

Phil Dowe is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. His publications include Physical Causation (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and ‘Every Now and Then: A‐theory and Loops in Time’ in Journal of Philosophy (2009).

Douglas Ehring is the William Edward Easterwood Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His publications include ‘Causal Relata’ in Synthese 73 (1987) and Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Don Garrett is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. His publications include ‘The Representation of Causation and Hume's Two Definitions of “Cause”’ in Noûs 27 (1993); Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1997); and ‘Hume's Naturalistic Theory of Representation’ in Synthese 152 (2006).

Stuart Glennan is Professor of Philosophy at Butler University in Indianapolis. His publications include ‘Mechanisms and the Nature of Causation’ in Erkenntnis 44 (1996) and ‘Modeling Mechanisms’ in Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (2005).

Clark Glymour is Alumni University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Statistics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Peter Godfrey‐Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His publications include Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Chicago University Press, 2003) and Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Richard Healey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His publications include The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 1989); ‘Chasing Quantum Causes: How Wild is the Goose?’ in Philosophical Topics 20 (1992); and ‘Nonseparable Processes and Causal Explanation’ in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 25 (1994).

Christopher Hitchcock is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology. He has published numerous papers in the Philosophy of Science, especially on the topic of causation, in journals such as Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Noûs, Philosophy of Science, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Carl Hoefer is ICREA Research Professor in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His publications include ‘Humean Effective Strategies’ in P. Hajek, L. Valdes‐Villanueva, and D. Westerstahl (eds.), Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress (King's College London, 2005) and ‘Causality and Determinism: Tension, or Outright Conflict?’ in Revista de Filosofía 29 (2004).

Terry Horgan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His publications include ‘Mental Quausation’ in Philosophical Perspectives 3 (1989); ‘Kim on Mental Causation and Causal Exclusion’ in Philosophical Perspectives 11 (1998); ‘Causal Compatibilism and the Exclusion Problem’ in Theoria 16 (2001); and ‘Mental Causation and the Agent-Exclusion Problem’ in Erkenntnis 67 (2007).

Paul Humphreys is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Chances of Explanation (Oxford University Press, 1989) and ‘Causation’ in W. H. Newton‐Smith (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell, 1999).

Frank Jackson teaches at Princeton University each autumn and is at La Trobe University or the Australian National University the rest of the year. His publications include ‘Mental Causation: the State of the Art’ in Mind 105 (1996); ‘Causation in the Philosophy of Mind’ (with Philip Pettit) in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 Supplementary (1990); and The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition (with David Braddon‐Mitchell) (Basil Blackwell, 2nd edn., 2007).

Harold Kincaid is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has written multiple books and numerous articles on issues in the philosophy of the social sciences.

Marc Lange is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics: Locality, Fields, Energy, and Mass (Blackwell, 2002) and ‘How Can Instantaneous Velocity Fulfill its Causal Role?’ in Philosophical Review 114 (2005).

Peter Lipton passed away on 25 November 2007, as this volume was being prepared. He was the author of Inference to the Best Explanation (Routledge, 1991) and numerous articles in the philosophy of science. He was Head of Cambridge University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science for many years. He earned a reputation as a gifted teacher and caring mentor. He will be sorely missed by family and friends, students and colleagues, and the profession of philosophy.

John Marenbon is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. His publications include Abelard (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Boethius (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2007).

Cei Maslen is a lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her publications include ‘Causes, Contrasts and the Nontransitivity of Causation’ in J. Collins, E. J. Hall, and L.A. Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals (MIT, 2004) and ‘Counterfactuals as Short Stories’ (with Seahwa Kim) in Philosophical Studies 129 (2006).

Alfred R. Mele is the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. His publications include Motivation and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2003); Free Will and Luck (Oxford University Press, 2006); and Effective Intentions: the Power of Conscious Will (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Peter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has written numerous articles on causation, including most recently ‘Causation in Context’ in H. Price and R. Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2007) and ‘Causal Models, Token Causation, and Processes’ in Philosophy of Science 71 (2004).

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Nottingham. His books include Dispositions (Oxford University Press, 1998); Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004); and David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007). He also edited George Molnar's posthumous book Powers (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Ram Neta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His publications include ‘S knows that p’ in Noûs 36 (2002); and ‘Contextualism and a Puzzle about Seeing’ in Philosophical Studies 136 (2007).

Samir Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. He is the author of numerous papers in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology. His book Evolution and the Levels of Selection was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.

L. A. Paul is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her publications include ‘Aspect Causation’ in Journal of Philosophy 97 (2000); the co-edited volume (with John Collins and Ned Hall) Causation and Counterfactuals (MIT, 2004); and Causation: A User's Guide, co‐authored with Ned Hall (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Huw Price is ARC Federation Fellow and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. His publications include Facts and the Function of Truth (Blackwell, 1988); and Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point (Oxford University Press, 1996). He is also co‐editor (with Richard Corry) of Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens. He is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth (Routledge, 1999); Causation and Explanation (Acumen and McGill‐Queens University Press, 2002); and Philosophy of Science A–Z (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). He edited with Martin Curd The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2008).

Carolina Sartorio is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. Her publications include ‘How to be Responsible for Something without Causing It’ in Philosophical Perspectives 18 (2004); and ‘Moral Inertia’ in Philosophical Studies 140 (2008).

Lawrence Sklar is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. His publications include Physics and Chance (Cambridge University Press, 1993); Theory and Truth (Oxford University Press, 2000); and Philosophy of Physics (Oxford University Press, 1995).

Jane Stapleton is Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law, Professor at the Australian National University College of Law, and Statutory Visiting Professor at Oxford University Faculty of Law. Her publications include ‘Choosing What We Mean by “Causation” in the Law’, Missouri Law Review 73 (2008).

Michael Stöltzner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. His publications include ‘Vienna Indeterminism: Mach, Boltzmann, Exner’ in Synthese 119 (1999) and ‘The Least Action Principle as the Logical Empiricist's Shibboleth’ in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 34 (2003).

Michael Tooley is Distinguished College Professor in Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His publications include Causation: A Realist Approach (Oxford University Press, 1987); Time, Tense, and Causation (Oxford University Press, 1997); ‘Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism’ in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50, Supplement (1990); ‘The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account’ in D. Copp (ed.), Canadian Philosophers: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary 16 (1990); and ‘Causation and Supervenience’ in M. Loux and D. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Eric Watkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. His publications include Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Kant and the Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Brad Weslake is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester.

Jon Williamson is Professor of Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method in the Philosophy Department at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include Bayesian Nets and Causality (Oxford, 2005) and ‘Causality’, Handbook of Philosophical Logic 14 (2007).

James F. Woodward is J. O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology. His publications include Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation (Oxford University Press, 2003) and ‘Sensitive and Insensitive Causation’ in Philosophical Review 115 (2006).