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  • 1. Introduction; 2. Cosmic Hermeneutics vs. Emergence: The Challenge of the Explanatory Gap ; 3. Explanation, Emergence and Causality: Comments on Crane; 4. Is Nonreductive Physicalism Viable Within a Causal Powers Metaphysic? ; 5. Exclusion and Physicalism: Comments on O'Connor and Churchill; 6. Emergent Causation and Property Causation; 7. Emergence: Laws and Properties: Comments On Noordhof; 8. The Causal Autonomy of the Special Sciences; 9. Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: A Reply to Menzies and List; 10. Emergence and Downward Causation; 11. Identity With a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald; 12. Can Any Sciences Be Special? ; 13. Can Any Sciences be Special? Comment on Papineau; 14. Emergence vs. Reduction in Chemistry; 15. An Emergentist's Perspective on the Problem of Free Will; 16. Strong Emergence and Freedom: Comment on A. Stephan; 17. Rationality, Reasoning and Group Agency