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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Ricki Bliss, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
March 2024
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    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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    March 2024
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781009115872
    0 pages
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    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.
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    • Ricki Bliss , Lehigh University, Pennsylvania