ABSTRACT
The concept of metaphysical emergence is intimately tied up with our concept of fundamentality. Whether it is unpredictability, irreducibility, or metaphysical or dynamical autonomy that are taken as its hallmarks, it seems that that which characterizes the metaphysically emergent could equally characterize the fundamental. But the idea of the emergent as something arising out of complexity suggests that the concept involves the non-fundamental just as essentially. In order to understand emergence, then, it seems we need to get a grip on what we mean by fundamentality and how it is that we should understand the relation between the fundamental and that with which it is contrasted.
