Fundamental Things 1st Edition Louis Derosset

Fundamental Things – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 0198812892

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198812892
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198812890
• Author(s): Louis deRosset

The scientific successes of the last 400 years strongly suggest a view on which things are organized into layers, with phenomena in higher layers dependent on and determined by what goes on below. Philosophers have recently explored the idea that we can make sense of this view by appeal to a relation called grounding.

In Fundamental Things, Louis de Rosset develops the rudiments of a theory of grounding and applies that theory to questions concerning the contents of the layers and the relations among them. This theory specifies what grounding is and how it relates to relevant forms of explanation. It addresses arguments for skepticism about grounding and draws points of contrast between a grounding-centered approach to relative fundamentality and other approaches.

Table contents:

1. Grounding and Fundamentality
1.1 A New Name for an Ancient Idea
1.2 Grounding and Explanation
1.3 Grounding Explanations are Metaphysical
1.4 Fundamentality
2. Some Features of Grounding
2.1 Grounding and Dependence
2.2 Structural Features
2.3 Varieties of Grounding
2.4 Unity
2.5 Grounds and Causes
3. Skepticism
3.1 Hard Eliminativism
3.2 Soft Eliminativism
3.3 Revolutionary Reductionism
4. Grounding and Reduction
4.1 Identity Reduction
4.2 Chunky Facts and Their Structure
4.3 Multiple Realizability Arguments
4.4 Other Kinds of Reduction
4.5 Metaphysical Truth Conditions
4.6 Conclusion
5. Preventing Collapse
5.1 The Collapse
5.2 Generalizations of the Collapse
5.3 Identity Reduction and the Collapse
5.4 A Way Out
5.5 Objections
5.6 Alternatives
6. Grounding the Unreal
6.1 Conciliatory Irrealism
6.2 Reduction
6.3 Ground
6.4 Truthmaking
6.5 Grounding the Unreal
6.6 Diagnostics for Reality
7. Hollow Truth
7.1 Puzzles Concerning Ground and Truth
7.2 What is Metaphysical “Heft”?
7.3 Truth as Hollow
7.4 Solutions
7.5 A Problem for Internality
7.6 Objections
7.7 Conclusion
8. The Nonreductivist’s Trouble with Explanation
8.1 Standard Nonreductivism
8.2 The Determination Constraint
8.3 The Connection Problem
8.4 Objections to the Determination Constraint
8.5 Alternatives to dc
8.6 Accepting the Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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