Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of RealityFabrice Correia, Benjamin Schnieder Cambridge University Press, 4 okt 2012 - 311 pagina's Some of the most eminent and enduring philosophical questions concern matters of priority: what is prior to what? What 'grounds' what? Is, for instance, matter prior to mind? Recently, a vivid debate has arisen about how such questions have to be understood. Can the relevant notion or notions of priority be spelled out? And how do they relate to other metaphysical notions, such as modality, truth-making or essence? This volume of new essays, by leading figures in contemporary metaphysics, is the first to address and investigate the metaphysical idea that certain facts are grounded in other facts. An introduction introduces and surveys the debate, examining its history as well as its central systematic aspects. The volume will be of wide interest to students and scholars of metaphysics. |
Inhoudsopgave
Grounding an opinionated introduction | 1 |
Guide to ground | 37 |
Scepticism about grounding | 81 |
A clarification and defense of the notion of grounding | 101 |
Grounding transitivity and contrastivity | 122 |
Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza | 139 |
Requirements on reality | 165 |
Varieties of ontological dependence | 186 |
Asymmetrical dependence in individuation | 214 |
Simple metaphysics and ontological dependence | 234 |
Truthmakers and dependence | 254 |
Expressivism about making and truthmaking | 272 |
Bibliography | 294 |
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Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality Fabrice Correia,Benjamin Schnieder Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2012 |
Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality Fabrice Correia,Benjamin Schnieder Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2014 |
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argue argument asymmetric Audi Bolzano causal Chris Daly claim conception connection consequential essence constituents Correia counterexamples criterion of identity defined disjunctive distinction entities example existential exists explanandum explanation explanatory expressivism find Fine’s finite first full ground fundamental given grounding relation grounds the fact hold holes individuated instance introduction rules irreflexive Jonathan Schaffer kind Kit Fine Leibniz logic of ground manifestation-type meowing metaphysical metaphysical necessity modal nature non-causal dependence notion of grounding noun phrases objects ontological commitments ontological dependence ovum paraphrase partial ground passivity philosophers plausible powers predicate principle properties proposition quantifiers question real definition reality reality-requirements reason relevant Rosen sceptic Schnieder semantic sense sentence simple metaphysician singleton set snow is white Socrates is pale specific Spinoza statements strict ground structure substance sufficient supervenience supposed talk of grounding things transitivity tropes truth truth-maker theory verifies