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Title

Metaphysical grounding : understanding the structure of reality / edited by Fabrice Correia, Benjamin Schnieder.

Publication

• Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• ©2012

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Additional Authors

• Correia, Fabrice.
• Schnieder, Benjamin.

Description

vii, 311 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• A priori
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Metaphysics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-305) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Grounding: an opinionated introduction / Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder; 1. Guide to ground / Kit Fine; 2. Scepticism about grounding / Chris Daly; 3. A clarification and defense of the notion of grounding / Paul Audi; 4. Grounding, transitivity, and contrastivity / Jonathan Schaffer; 5. Violations of the principle of sufficient reason (in Leibniz and Spinoza) / Michael Della Rocca; 6. Requirements on reality / Robbie Williams; 7. Varieties of ontological dependence / Kathrin Koslicki; 8. Asymmetrical dependence in individuation / E.J. Lowe; 9. Simple metaphysics and 'ontological dependence' / Jody Azzouni; 10. Truthmakers and dependence / David Liggins; 11. Expressivism about truth-making / Stephen Barker.

Call Number

JFE 12-7983

ISBN

• 9781107022898
• 1107022894

LCCN

2012014618

OCLC

793497146

Title

Metaphysical grounding : understanding the structure of reality / edited by Fabrice Correia, Benjamin Schnieder.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Copyright Date

©2012

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-305) and index.

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Cover image

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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Added Author

Correia, Fabrice.

Schnieder, Benjamin.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-7983