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Zusatztext All told, the papers in this volume are substantive and, in many cases, compelling ... Reality Making offers something of value to anyone with an interest in grounding, fundamentality and essentialism. Informationen zum Autor Mark Jago is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He writes on metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Klappentext What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? A new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics. Zusammenfassung What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? A new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Martin Glazier: Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental 2: Naomi Thompson: Metaphysical Interdependence 3: Jacek Brzozowski: Monism and Gunk 4: Matthew Tugby: What Are Dispositional Properties? 5: Mark Jago: Essence and the Grounding Problem 6: Nicholas K. Jones: Object as a determinable 7: Sonia Roca-Royes: Rethinking Origin Essentialism (for artefacts) 8: Nathan Wildman: How (not) to be a modalist about essence
