
Reality Making
Mark Jago(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 11. February 2016
Book
Hardback
210 pages
978-0-19-875572-2 (ISBN)
Description
What makes up reality, and how? 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? These questions are central to contemporary metaphysics. The papers in this collection, written by a new generation of metaphysicians, address these and related questions. They investigate the metaphysical concepts of grounding and fundamentality, and the relationship between the fundamental and all the other parts of reality. Together, these papers represent the cutting-edge of a central topic in contemporary metaphysics.
Reviews / Votes
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. * Ricki Bliss, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-875572-2 (9780198755722)
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Person
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.
Content
Introduction ; 1. Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental ; 2. Metaphysical Interdependence ; 3. Monism and Gunk ; 4. What Are Dispositional Properties? ; 5. Essence and the Grounding Problem ; 6. Object as a determinable ; 7. Rethinking Origin Essentialism (for artefacts) ; 8. How (not) to be a modalist about essence