Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
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 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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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Groundwork: grounding and fundamentality
- 2. The history of an idea: ultimate explanations and the bottom of the world
- 3. The metaphysics of fundamentality
- 4. The epistemology of fundamentality
- 5. Fundamentality: some misgivings and its alternatives
- References.
