Conference in English co-organized by Prof. Claudine Tiercelin, Chair of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHPST and 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.
