Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Contextual Emergence

    Paul Humphreys (U. Virginia)

20 June 2011  |  15:00  |  Seminari de Filosofia UB

Abstract

This paper provides an account of a certain kind of ontological emergence and provides an argument that shows why David
Chalmers' position that almost everything, except certain mental facts,  logically supervene on fundamental physical facts, relies on a too restricted sense of fundamentality.