The Strong Emergence of Free Will
Conférence de Jessica Wilson, Université de Toronto
Le 28 mars 2023 de 16h à 18h
Collège de France
Salle Glowinsky
Co-oganisée par la Professeure Claudine Tiercelin, chaire Métaphysique et philosophie de la connaissance et l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHPST et HiPhiMo).
Les conférences sont gratuites, en accès libre, sans inscription préalable.
Résumé
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.
