Argumenta – Journal of Analytic Philosophy

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).

Jessica Wilson’s Metaphysical Emergence (2021) is a wonderful book. It addresses a wide range of central metaphysical issues from an overarching theoretical perspective. Not only is it must-reading for anyone who works on metaphysical emergence, it contains a wealth of material that should be of interest to anyone who works on physicalism, realization, the metaphysics of complex systems, the metaphysics of ordinary objects, consciousness, mental causation, or…

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