Wilson on Metaphysical Emergence [Book Symposium]
Issue: Issue 19 • Author/s: Brian P. McLaughlin
Topics: Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science
I critically examine Jessica Wilson’s views concerning the relationship between Weak emergence and Physicalism and between Strong emergence and Physicalism, and also her defense of libertarian free will in Metaphysical Emergence (2021).
Questioning, Rather Than Solving, the Problem of Higher-Level Causation [Book Symposium]
Issue: Issue 19 • Author/s: Erica Onnis
Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of science
In Metaphysical Emergence, Jessica Wilson recognises the problem of higher-level causation as “the most pressing challenge to taking the appearances of emergent structure as genuine” (2021: 39). Then, Wilson states that there are “two and only two strategies of response to this problem” (2021: 40) that lead to Strong and Weak emergence. In this paper, I suggest that there might be an alternative strategy—not opposite, but different in kind—to approach this difficulty. As noticed by Wilson, the problem of higher-level causation was formulated and made central by Jaegwon Kim. However,…
Author Meets Critics. Session on Metaphysical Emergence: Replies [Book Symposium]
Issue: Issue 19 • Author/s: Jessica M. Wilson
Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of Time