Emergent agent causation

Abstract In this paper I argue that many scholars involved in the contemporary free will debates have underappreciated philosophical appeal of agent causation because resources emergentism not been adequately introduced into discussion. Whereas agree causation’s main problem has to do with its intelligibility, particularly respect issue how substances can be causally relevant, notion substance clearly articulated from an emergentist framework. According my proposal, a is powerful emerges anomic way her constitutive mental events , downwardly constraining, selecting and, way, having control on them. As we shall see, particular concept only makes sense deep insight behind libertarianism, but it also provides us solve some objections raised against it. It true here cannot develop complete defense evidential credentials emergentism. Still, even if considerations follow serve convince detractors causal libertarian accounts will, they suggest more promising than typically acknowledged.