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David Yates. Completed the Doutoramento in PhD in Philosophy in 2006 by King's College London, Mestrado in MPhil in Philosophy in 1998 by King's College London and Licenciatura in BA in Philosophy in 1996 by University of Liverpool. Is Principal Investigator in Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia. Published 13 articles in journals. Has 4 section(s) of books. Participates and/or participated as Master Student Fellow in 1 project(s), PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Pos-doctoral Fellow in 1 project(s) and Principal investigator in 3 project(s). In their professional activities interacted with 3 collaborator(s) co-authorship of scientific papers.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
David Yates

Citation names

  • Yates, David

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4618-2664-1AB3
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2919-393X

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2006
Concluded
 PhD in Philosophy (Doutoramento)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"The Causal Argument for Physicalism" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass without corrections
1998
Concluded
 MPhil in Philosophy (Mestrado)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"Mental Causation" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with distinction
1996
Concluded
 BA in Philosophy (Licenciatura)
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
"Psychological Externalism" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 First class honours
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/02/01 - 2020/01/31 Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2012/09/01 - 2014/09/30 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2008/01/01 - 2010/12/31 Principal Investigator (Research) King's College London, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2011/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) King's College London, United Kingdom
2007/09/01 - 2007/12/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) King's College London, United Kingdom
2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2006/09/01 - 2007/07/01 Tutor (University Teacher) King's College London, United Kingdom
2002/09/01 - 2005/07/01 Tutor (University Teacher) King's College London, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/10/01 - 2022/09/30 Emergence in the Natural Sciences
PTDC/FER-HFC/30665/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2002/10/01 - 2004/09/30 The Causal Argument for Physicalism
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PhD Student Fellow
King's College London, United Kingdom
 Arts and Humanities Research Council
Concluded
1996/10/01 - 1998/09/30 Mental Causation
N/A
Master Student Fellow
King's College London, United Kingdom
 British Academy
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018 - 2021 Companion to Analytic Philosophy 2
FCT (PTDC/FER-FIL/28442/2017)
PTDC/FER-FIL/28442/2017
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/02/01 - 2020/01/31 Emergent Spacetime in Quantum Gravity
IF/01736/2014
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Emergence, Downwards Causation and the Completeness of Physics
PDF/2007/572
Principal investigator
King's College London, United Kingdom
 British Academy
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Yates, David. Rethinking Emergence. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2024.
    Accepted • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Yates, David. "From Multilevel Explanation to Downward Causation". In Levels of Explanation, edited by Alastair Wilson; Katie Robertson. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2024.
    In press
  2. Yates, David. "Hylomorphism, or Something Near Enough". In Rethinking Emergence, edited by David Yates; Amanda Bryant. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Yates, David. "Emergência". In Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica. Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2022.
    Published • 10.51427/cfi.2022.0009
  4. Yates, David. "Thinking about Spacetime". In Philosophy Beyond Spacetime, edited by Nick Huggett, Christian Wüthrich & Baptiste Le Bihan., 129-153. Oxford University Press, 2021.
    10.1093/oso/9780198844143.003.0006
  5. Yates, David. "Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation?". In The Metaphysics of Relations, 138-156. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
    Published • 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.003.0009
  6. Marmodoro, Anna; Yates, David. "Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations". In The Metaphysics of Relations, 1-18. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
    Published • 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.003.0001
  7. Yates, David. "Emergence". In Encyclopaedia of the Mind, 283-287. EUA: Hal Pashler, 2009.
    Published • 10.4135/9781452257044.n106
Edited book
  1. Marmodoro, Anna; Yates, David. The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2016.
    Published • 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735878.001.0001 • Editor
Journal article
  1. Yates, David. "A Strange Kind of Power: Vetter on the Formal Adequacy of Dispositionalism". Philosophical Inquiries 8 I (2020): 97-116. https://philinq.it/index.php/philinq/article/view/277.
    Published • 10.4454/philinq.v8i1.277
  2. David Yates. "Neural Synchrony and the Causal Efficacy of Consciousness". Topoi 39 (2020): 1057-1072. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9596-7.
    Published • 10.1007/s11245-018-9596-7
  3. Santos, Ricardo; Yates, David. "SI: Chalmers on Virtual Reality Introduction". Disputatio 11 55 (2019): 291-296. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0021.
    Open access • Published • 10.2478/disp-2019-0021
  4. David Yates. "Emergence". Analysis 78 3 (2018): 557-562. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fanalys%2Fany034.
    10.1093/analys/any034
  5. Yates, David. "Three arguments for humility". Philosophical Studies 175 (2018): 461-481.
    Published • 10.1007/s11098-017-0877-6
  6. Yates, David. "Inverse functionalism and the individuation of powers". Synthese 195 (2018): 4525-4550.
    Published • 10.1007/s11229-017-1417-9
  7. Yates, David. "Demystifying Emergence". Ergo N/A (2016): 1-45. https://philpapers.org/archive/YATDE.pdf.
    Published • 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0003.031
  8. Yates, David. "Dispositionalism and the Modal Operators". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 2 (2015): 411-424.
    Published • 10.1111/phpr.12132
  9. Yates, David. "The Essence of Dispositional Essentialism". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87 1 (2013): 93-128.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00568.x
  10. Yates, D.. "Mind and Cosmos". Analysis 73 4 (2013): 801-806.
    Published • 10.1093/analys/ant062
  11. Yates, David. "The Waning of Materialism". The Philosophical Quarterly 62 247 (2012): 420-422.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.00033.x
  12. Yates, D.. "Functionalism and the metaphysics of causal exclusion". Philosophers Imprint 12 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883749972&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  13. Yates, D.. "The World in the Head". Analysis 72 1 (2011): 193-196.
    Published • 10.1093/analys/anr146
  14. Yates, David. "EMERGENCE, DOWNWARDS CAUSATION AND THE COMPLETENESS OF PHYSICS". The Philosophical Quarterly 59 234 (2009): 110-131.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2008.556.x
  15. Yates, David. "RESPONSE-DEPENDENCE". Philosophical Books 49 4 (2008): 344-354.
    Published • 10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.00473.x
Journal issue
  1. Santos, Ricardo; Yates, David. "Chalmers on Virtual Reality". Disputatio 11 57 (2019): https://sciendo.com/issue/DISP/11/55.
    Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/05 The Pendulum Clock and the Past Hypothesis Emergence and Time
Universidade de Braga (Braga, Portugal)
2023/06/12 The Pendulum Clock and the Past Hypothesis Open topics in the philosophy of physics
Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/21 Hylomorphism, Causal Closure and the Fundamentality of the Familiar Lancog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/03/29 Demystifying Emergence Worskhop on my paper "Demystifying Emergence"
University of Bristol (Online (Bristol-Lisbon), United Kingdom)
2019/07 Multilevel Explanation and the Causal Closure of the Physical Joint LanCog-Physis Workshop on Metaphysics
University of Complutense (Madrid, Spain)
2019/04/03 Multilevel Explanation and the Causal Closure of the Physical Levels of Explanation
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2018/01 Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation The View From Above
Corpus Christi College Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2018 Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation
(United Kingdom)
2018 Spacetime, Scepticism and Transparency: Chalmers on the Matrix Mind Brazil International Workshop I: David Chalmers
Mind Brazil Society (Tiradentes, Brazil)
2018 Functionalism and Transparency: Chalmers on Spatial Concepts LanCog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
LanCog, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017 Empirical Coherence and Emergent Spacetime in Quantum Gravity
(Portugal)
2017 Empirical Coherence and Spacetime Emergence in Quantum Gravity ECAP 9 Munich
European Society for Analytic Philosophy (Munich, Germany)
2016 Dispositional Monism and the Problem of Relational Individuation SBFA Conferencia IV
Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy (Campinas, Brazil)
2016 Spacetime Functionalism and Empirical Coherence
(Switzerland)
2016 Spacetime Functionalism and the Problem of Empirical Incoherence Fifth Colloquium of Analytic Metaphysics
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2016 On the Relational Individuation of Powers Lancog Seminar
Lancog Research Group, Centro de Filosofia, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Emergent Spacetime in Quantum Gravity Lancog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
LanCog Research Group, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016 Spacetime Functionalism and Empirical Coherence Beyond Spacetime Seminar
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2016 Dispositional Monism and the Problem of Relational Individuation SBFA IV Campinas
Sociedade Brasilieira de Filosofia Analitica (Campinas, Brazil)
2015 Demystifying Emergence Lancog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015 Structuralism and the Problem of Relational Individuation Work in progress seminar
Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/12 Demystifying Emergence Workshop on the completeness of physics
University of Durham (Durham, United Kingdom)
2014/01 Second-order structural realism Work in progress seminar
Corpus Christi College Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2013/12 A problem for dispositional theories of modality Aarhus Philosophy Department Seminar
University of Aarhus (Aarhus, Denmark)
2013/07 The Formal Inadequacy of Dispositionalism Workshop on Modality
University of Nottingham (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
2013/06 Aristotelian Actualisms Lancog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy
Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/11 Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? Work in progress semimar
Corpus Christi College Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2012/04 Pure powers and powerful qualities Workshop on the philosophy of John Heil
Corpus Christi College Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2011/01 Functionalism and the Metaphysics of Causal Exclusion Work in progress seminar
University of Birkbeck (London, United Kingdom)
2010/05 Metaphysics of Causation Exclusion Staff Seminar
King's College London (London, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2020/10/01 - 2023/06/23 Emotional response and cognitive performance in digital environments: an exploratory study
Supervisor
 Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2020/11/27 Emergence: among irreducibility and novelty
Co-supervisor
 Philosophy (PhD)
Universitá degli Studi di Torino Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione Sezione di Filosofia, Italy
2018/11/01 - 2019/11/27 The Influence of Music on Mental Rotation tasks in the light of Embodied Cognition Theory
Supervisor
 Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/11/01 - 2019/06/18 Empathy as an answer for the Tragedy Paradox in Music
Supervisor
 Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2017/11/01 - 2018/09/21 The Incoherent Mind
Supervisor
 Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2010/01/09 - 2015/09/11 Causal and Constitutive Explanation in the Special Sciences
Co-supervisor
 Philosophy (PhD)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2011/02/01 - 2011/06/30 Structural Realism and Ramsey Sentences
Supervisor
 MA Philosophy (Master)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2011/02/01 - 2011/06/30 Laws of Nature in the Social Sciences
Supervisor
 MA Philosophy (Master)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2011/02/01 - 2011/06/30 Natural Kinds in Psychology
Supervisor
 MA Philosophy (Master)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2008/02/01 - 2008/06/30 Moral Luck
Supervisor
 MA Philosophy (Master)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2008/02/01 - 2008/06/01 Causal Exclusion and Overdetermination
Supervisor
 MA Philosophy (Master)
King's College London Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2015/02/01 - Current LanCog Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy (co-organization of seminar series featuring international speakers on a wide range of topics in analytic philosophy) (2015/02/01)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/07/27 - 2022/07/29 International Conference: Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metphysics. Co-organized by the Emergence in the Natural Sciences Project, together with Alastair Wilson's "Framephys" project (Birmingham) and Tuomas Tahko's "Metascience" project (Bristol). https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/emergence-and-reduction-in-science-and-metaphysics/ (2022/07/27 - 2022/07/29)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

University of Bristol Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom

University of Birmingham Department of Philosophy, United Kingdom
2021/10/14 - 2021/10/15 New Mechanism, Reduction and Emergence in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (International workshop on new mechanism.) Organized by the Emergence in the Natural Sciences project (PTDC/FER-HFC/30665/2017). https://mechanism.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/ (2021/10/14)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2021/02/04 - 2021/06/30 Emergence in the Natural Sciences - Seminar Series (a series of 9 seminars given over Zoom during Covid lockdown, from international speakers on the topic of emergence, with videos of the talks where available). https://www.kdyates.com/events/ (2021/02/04 - 2021/06/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2021/02/19 - 2021/02/19 Davide Romano: The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics: One World, Many Routes (video of the talk available here: https://www.kdyates.com/events/) (2021/02/19)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/11/20 - 2020/11/20 Tuomas Tahko: Natural Kinds, Mind-Independence, and Unification Principles (video of the talk available here: https://www.kdyates.com/events/) (2020/11/20)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/11/13 - 2020/11/13 Joaquim Giannotti: The fundamentality of fundamental powers (video of the talk available here: https://www.kdyates.com/events/) (2020/11/13)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/09/25 - 2020/09/25 David Papineau: Why sensory consciousness can't be essentially representational (video of the talk available here: https://www.kdyates.com/events/) (2020/09/25)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/10/17 - 2019/10/19 Rethinking Emergence (international workshop on emergence in science and both ancient and contemporary metaphysics). Organized by Emergence in the Natural Sciences project (PTDC/FER-HFC/30665/2017). https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/rethinking-emergence/ (2019/10/17 - 2019/10/19)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/06/07 - 2019/06/07 Christian Wuethrich: Does spacetime functionalism have to be universal? (2019/06/07)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/06/06 - 2019/06/06 Christian Wuethrich: Spacetime is as spacetime does (2019/06/06)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2019/05/31 - 2019/05/31 Karen Crowther: Levels of fundamentality in the metaphysics of physics (2019/05/31)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/05/30 - 2019/05/30 Karen Crowther: When do we stop digging? (2019/05/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2019/03/11 - 2019/03/12 The Meanings of Emergence in Philosophy and Science (conference co-organized by the Emergence in the Natural Sciences Project and the University of Turin) https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/the-meanings-of-emergence-in-philosophy-and-science/ (2019/03/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione, Italy

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/23 A Quantum Modal Realist solution to the Grandfather Paradox
President of the jury
 Gabriel Lee (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2023/11/30 An a priori Shift in Non-Reductionist Accounts of Testimony
President of the jury
 Gabriel Malagutti (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2022/06/22 As psicologias de Husserl : a relação da fenomenologia com a psicologia, em Husserl e na actualidade (https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/56600)
President of the jury
 Pedro Natario (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
2020/11/27 Emergence. Among irreducibility and novelty
(Thesis) Arguer
 Erica Onnis (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione, Italy
2019/11/29 The Female Orgasm : the interplay of cognitive, affective and physical determinants (https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/44144)
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Fabiana Paradinha (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019/06/18 Empathy as an answer for the Tragedy Paradox in Music (https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/39298)
Supervisor
 Catarina Viegas (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018/09/21 The Incoherent Mind (https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/35581)
Supervisor
 Tiago Brito (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021 - Current MLAG Annual Conference III Universidade do Porto
2019 - Current Society for the Metaphysics of Science Annual Conference
2018 - Current British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference