ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we see, first, how on a powers view Jaegwon Kim’s reductionist exclusion argument fails. We furthermore see more concretely how the mystery associated with emergence is an artifact of the nomothetic account of causation that disappears when we turn to a powers view of causality. We will see further that if we ask what level of mechanism is responsible for a causal effect, then the powers view of causality along with an appreciation for fusion turns supervenience on its head. In other words, given the dynamics of higher-level wholes interacting with each other, we find higher-level behavior not supervening on lower-level dynamics but the reverse: Lower-level behavior following or supervening on higher-level dynamics.
