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"Jessica M. Wilson" is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and Regular Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on metaphysics, especially on the philosophy of science/metaphysics of science and philosophy of mind/mind, the epistemology/epistemologies of philosophical skepticism/skepticism, a priori and a posteriori/a priori deliberation, and Logical truth/necessity. Wilson was awarded the Lebowitz Prize for excellence in philosophical thought by Phi Beta Kappa in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association. She is known for introducing the 'proper subset strategy' for linking higher-level entities to their realizers through sets of causal powers, and for her defense of the idea that ordinary metaphysical relations are well-suited to characterize metaphysical dependencies.