ABSTRACT
Emergence and reduction are unquestionably connected, and many people assume that they are inconsistent. I disagree. After distinguishing nominal, strong, and weak emergence, I explain how one kind of emergence-what I call “weak” emergence-is not merely consistent with reduction; it actually depends on a particular context-sensitive form of micro-causal reduction. Weak emergence and context-sensitive reduction go hand in hand. All this illustrates a form of pluralism about emergence, which holds that nature can contain many distinct kinds of emergence. Rather than looking for the one single true view of emergence, we should fi nd them all.
