Reality and its structure : essays in fundamentality
- Title
- Reality and its structure : essays in fundamentality / edited by Ricki Bliss and Graham Priest.
- Published by
- Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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- Description
- vi, 324 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.