Reality and its structure : essays in fundamentality

Title
  1. Reality and its structure : essays in fundamentality / edited by Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest.
Published by
  1. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Additional authors
  1. Bliss, Ricki.
  2. Priest, Graham.
Description
  1. vi, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Fifteen leading philosophers explore metaphysical foundationalism, the idea that reality has an over-arching hierarchical structure ordered by relations of metaphysical dependence, where chains of entities ordered by those dependence relations terminate in something fundamental.
Subject
  1. Foundationalism (Theory of knowledge)
  2. Metaphysics
  3. Metaphysics
  4. metaphysics
Contents
  1. Part I. The hierarchy thesis -- Grounding orthodoxy and the layered conception -- Symmetric dependence -- Grounding and reflexivity -- Cosmic loops -- Metaphysical interdependence, epistemic coherentism, and holistic explanation -- Buddhist dependence -- Bicollective ground: towards a (hyper)graphic account -- Part II. The fundamentality thesis -- Indefinitely descending ground -- Inheritance arguments for fundamentality -- From nature to grounding -- Grounding in mathematical structuralism -- Fundamentality and ontological minimality -- The structure of physical reality: beyond foundationalism -- Part III. The contingency and consistency theses -- On shaky ground? Exploring the contengent fundamentality thesis -- Heidegger's Grund: (para- )foundationalism.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.