Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009479393 | 80 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.1 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009479393 | 80 Pages | PDF (True) | 1.1 MB
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.