Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

This Element shows a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed or within a certain domain. Contemporarily some philosophers focus on the notion of fundamentality - that there is something that is without explanation.

List 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.

Summary

This Element shows a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed or within a certain domain. Contemporarily some philosophers focus on the notion of fundamentality - that there is something that is without explanation.

Foreword

This Element explores the notions of grounding and fundamentality as they relate to ultimate explanations.

Product details

• Authors: Ricki Bliss, Ricki (Lehigh University Bliss
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9781009479394
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947939-4
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Elements in Metaphysics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge