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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bliss, Ricki (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2024].
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Groundwork : grounding and fundamentality
  • Ultimate explanations : an idea and its history
  • The metaphysics of fundamentality
  • The epistemology of fundamentality : regresses, virtues and other desiderata
  • Fundamentality : some misgivings and its alternatives.