A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the
limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

[T] he structure of this physical world consistently moved farther and farther away from the
world of sense and lost its former anthropomorphic character…. Thus the physical world has …

It is still a widespread assumption that metaphysics and ontology deal with roughly the same
questions. They are supposed to be concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and to …

A compelling idea holds that reality has a layered structure. We often disagree about what
inhabits the bottom layer, but we agree that higher up we find chemical, biological …

In this paper, I argue for a new way of characterizing ontological emergence. I appeal to
recent discussions in meta-ontology regarding fundamentality and dependence, and show …

Pardon the indulgence, but let me begin with some autobiography. When, in the summer of
2009, I first read Fine (2001) and Rosen (2010) on ground, my immediate impression was …

This book seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an
ontology of the natural world that matches all of today's well-established physical theories …

This entry focuses on two of the more historically important monisms: existence monism and
priority monism. Existence monism targets concrete objects and counts by tokens. This is the …

The laws of nature have come a long way since the time of Newton: quantum mechanics
and relativity have given us good reasons to take seriously the possibility of laws which may …