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Alastair Wilson: Emergent Contingency
Alastair Wilson: Emergent Contingency
ABSTRACT I begin by distinguishing between two conceptions of what needs explaining in modal metaphysics - necessity or contingency - and arguing that we should take seriously the neglected 'necessity-first' perspective. Then I illustrate how this perspective might work by offering a radical new theory of modality based on Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM), otherwise known […]