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functionalism

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation

David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion.

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