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Author Wilson, Jessica M.

Title Metaphysical Emergence / Jessica M. Wilson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations
Contents Key issues and questions -- Two schemas for metaphysical emergence -- The viability of Weak emergence -- The viability of Strong emergence -- Complex systems -- Ordinary objects -- Consciousness -- Free will -- Metaphysical emergence : next steps
Summary Metaphysical Emergence provides a detailed analyses of two ways for phenomena to be grounded in and yet distinct from underlying physical reality, and brings this to bear on a number of live debates in metpahysics, including those concerning consciousness and free will
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed July 15, 2021)
Subject Emergence (Philosophy)
Metaphysics.
First philosophy.
metaphysics.
First philosophy
Emergence (Philosophy)
Metaphysics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192556974
0192556975
9780191862526
0191862525