David Yates

Research group: LanCog
I’m from Denbigh, North Wales. I studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Liverpool University (93-96), and did my MPhil and PhD at King’s College London (96-98 and 02-06).

I held temporary lectureships at KCL and Sheffield, and postdocs at the Institute of Philosophy, KCL, and Oxford, before arriving at beautiful Lisbon, where I am an FCT Researcher. I specialise in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Mind, with a lot of teaching experience in all of them. I publish primarily on powers, causation, emergence, realization and related topics at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophies of science and mind.

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Selected Publications

Books

• The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford University Press UK. 2016. With Marmodoro Anna and Yates David.

Published articles

• A Strange Kind of Power: Vetter on the Formal Adequacy of Dispositionalism. Philosophical Inquiries 8 I (2020): 97-116.
• Inverse Functionalism and the Individuation of Powers. Synthese 1-26. 2017.
• Three Arguments for Humility. Philosophical Studies 1-21. 2017.
• Demystifying Emergence. Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 3. 2016.
• Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? In Anna Marmodoro & David Yates (eds.), The Metaphysics of Relations, Oxford University Press. pp. 138-156. 2016.
• Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations (with Anna Marmodoro). In Anna Marmodoro & David Yates (eds.), The Metaphysics of Relations, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-18. 2016.
• Dispositionalism and the Modal Operators. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 (2): 411-424. 2015.
• The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87 (1): 93-128. 2013.
• Emergence. In Hal Pashler (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Mind, Sage Reference. pp. 283-7. 2013.
• Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Causal Exclusion. Philosophers’ Imprint 12 (13): 1-25. 2012.
• Emergence, Downwards Causation and the Completeness of Physics. Philosophical Quarterly 59 (234). 2009.
• Response-Dependence. Analytic Philosophy 49 (4): 344-354. 2008.