It has recently been suggested that a distinctive metaphysical relation—'Grounding'—is
ultimately at issue in contexts in which some goings-on are said to hold 'in virtue of'', be …

Consider the following claim: the truck drivers are engaged in a labor strike in virtue of
picketing. What sort of claim is this? Well, it seems clear what sort of claim it isn't. It isn't an …

A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called" ordinary people":
talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon …

Are there objects that are" thin" in the sense that not very much is required for their
existence? Frege famously thought so. He claimed that the equinumerosity of the knives and …

This essay focuses on a recently prominent notion of (metaphysical) ground which is
distinctive for how it links metaphysics to explanation. Ground is supposed to serve both as …

The notion of fundamentality, as it is used in metaphysics, aims to capture the idea that there
is something basic or primitive in the world. This metaphysical notion is related to the …

Most authors on metaphysical grounding have taken full grounding to be an internal relation
in the sense that it's necessary that if the grounds and the grounded both obtain, then the …

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in metaphysical explanation, and
philosophers have fixed on the notion of ground as the conceptual tool with which such …

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical
notion of truthmaking. This is the relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the …

Moral properties are explained by other properties. And moral principles tell us about moral
properties. How are these two ideas related? In particular, is the truth of a given moral …