54. Jessica Wilson | Metaphysics

Jessica Wilson is Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her area of research focuses on a range of topics in metaphysics, from grounding, emergence, causation, and more, as well as the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphilosophy.

00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Conceptions of grounding
05:41 - Deciding between accounts
14:38 - Determining what is fundamental
19:10 - Skepticism about metaphysical theorizing
22:35 - Are disputes over fundamentality substantive?
29:28 - Making progress
32:03 - Hume's dictum
34:44 - Hume's dictum and emergence
43:09 - Why believe Hume's dictum?
47:07 - Characterizing the physical
53:31 - Potential issue for this account
54:40 - Powers and emergence
59:34 - Causes specific to effects
1:00:59 - Overdetermination
1:05:12 - No fundamental level?
1:17:01 - Metaphysical modality?
1:20:59 - Indeterminate states of affairs
1:30:21 - Problems for Cartesian skepticism
1:34:40 - Epistemic contextualism
1:35:34 - Barriers to philosophical progress
1:41:49 - Conclusion

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