David Yates

Academic Degree:
PhDProfessional Category:
Assistant Professor 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.
Selected Publications
Books
- The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford University Press UK. 2016.
Selected Publications
- ‘Hylomorphism, or Something Near Enough’, in David Yates & Amanda Bryant (eds.) Rethinking Emergence. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024.
- ‘From Multilevel Explanation to Downward Causation’, in Alaistair Wilson & Katie Robertson (eds.) Levels of Explanation. Oxford Universitry Press, forthcoming 2024
- ‘Emergência’. COMPÊNDIO EM LINHA DE PROBLEMAS DE FILOSOFIA ANALÍTICA 2022 1-33. 2022.
- ‘Thinking about Spacetime’, in Christian Wüthrich, Baptiste Le Bihan & Nick Huggett (eds.), Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, Oxford University Press (2021).
- ‘Neural Synchrony and the Causal Efficacy of Consciousness’, Topoi 39 (5): 1057-1072 (2020).
- ‘A Strange Kind of Power: Vetter on the Formal Adequacy of Dispositionalism’, Philosophical Inquiries 8 (1): 97-116 (2020).
- 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.