Machine generated contents note: 1.Making Sense of Emergence -- 2.The Layered World: Metaphysical Considerations -- 3.Emergence: Core Ideas and Issues -- 4."Supervenient and Yet Not Deducible": Is There a Coherent Concept of Ontological Emergence? -- 5.Reasons and the First Person -- 6.Taking the Agent's Point of View Seriously in Action Explanation -- 7.Explanatory Realism, Causal Realism, and Explanatory Exclusion -- 8.Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence -- 9.Hempel, Explanation, Metaphysics -- 10.Reduction and Reductive Explanation: Is One Possible Without the Other? -- 11.Can Supervenience and "Non-Strict" Laws Save Anomalous Monism? -- 12.Causation and Mental Causation -- 13.Two Concepts of Realization, Mental Causation, and Physicalism -- 14.Why There are No Laws in the Special Sciences: Three Arguments.