Brute facts / edited by Elly Vintiadis and Constantinos Mekios.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Must there be brute facts? / John Heil -- How to make the case for brute facts / Elanor Taylor -- Bruteness and supervenience : mind vs. morality / Joseph Levine -- Brute necessity and the mind-body problem / James Van Cleve -- Are modal facts brute facts? / Dana Goswick -- Truthmaking and the mysteries of emergence / Kevin Morris -- Are there brute facts about consciousness? / Torin Alter -- The provenance of consciousness / Gerald Vision -- Brute facts about emergence / John Symons -- There is nothing (really) wrong with emergent brute facts / Elly Vintiadis -- Emergence : inexplicable but explanatory / Peter Wyss -- Naturalism, emergence, and brute facts / Mark H. Bickhard -- Emergence, downward causation, and no brute facts in biological systems / Argyris Arnellos, Charbel El-Hani.