Grounding, fundamentality and ultimate explanations /
There is a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed, or within a certain, restricted domain. We call such explanations ultimate explanations. Contemporarily, philosophers of a certain stripe have devoted much attention to the notion...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics.
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| Summary: | There is a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed, or within a certain, restricted domain. We call such explanations ultimate explanations. Contemporarily, philosophers of a certain stripe have devoted much attention to the notion of fundamentality, that there is something which is without explanation. This Element explores some of the connections between fundamentality and ultimate explanations both contemporarily and historically. |
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| Physical Description: | 72 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [68]-72). |
| ISBN: | 9781009479394 1009479393 9781009096379 1009096370 |