Conférencier invité - Jessica Wilson : The Strong Emergence of Free Will

Claudine Tiercelin

Métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance

Année 2022-2023

Scepticisme et connaissance : de nouveaux défis

Conférencier invité - Jessica Wilson : The Strong Emergence of Free Will

Conférence en anglais co-oganisée par la Professeure Claudine Tiercelin, chaire Métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance et l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHPST et HiPhiMo).

Metaphysically emergent phenomena synchronically depend on, yet are also to some extent autonomous from, complex lower-level physical goings-on. In my recent book, Metaphysical Emergence, I argue that there are two forms of such emergence: Weak (whereby an emergent has a proper subset of powers of its physical dependence base) and Strong (whereby an emergent has fundamentally novel powers as compared to its physical dependence base). After presenting my two schemas for emergence, I argue that free will is Strongly emergent.