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Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
Contents
Introduction
1 Groundwork: Grounding and Fundamentality
1.1 Grounding: The Framework and Some of Its Controversies
1.1.1 The Relata
1.1.2 The Relation
1.1.3 Further Important Features
1.2 Fundamentality
1.2.1 Absolute Fundamentality
1.2.1.1 Independence
1.2.1.2 Completeness
1.2.1.3 Indispensability
1.2.1.4 Naturalness
1.3 Unexplained . . .
2 Ultimate Explanations: An Idea and Its History
2.1 Grounding Old or New?
2.2 Ultimate Explanations
2.3 Ultimate Explainers
2.4 Some Historic Examples
2.4.1 Prime Matter
2.4.2 God
2.4.3 Being
3 The Metaphysics of Fundamentality
3.1 Well-Foundedness
3.2 Purity
3.3 A Free Lunch
3.4 On the Aptness to Ultimately Explain
3.4.1 Priority Pluralism
3.4.2 Priority Monism
3.4.3 Middleism
3.4.4 Essences
4 The Epistemology of Fundamentality: Regresses, Virtues and Other Desiderata
4.1 The Regress Problem
4.2 Theoretical Virtues
4.3 Taking Stock
5 Fundamentality: Some Misgivings and Its Alternatives
5.1 The Trouble with Fundamentality
5.1.1 What Work the Fundamental?
5.1.2 Overdetermination
5.2 The Alternatives
5.2.1 Metaphysical Infinitism
5.2.2 Metaphysical Coherentism
5.3 Concluding Remarks
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