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 …

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 …

Logical realism is a view about the metaphysical status of logic. Common to most if not all
the views captured by the label 'logical realism'is that logical facts are mind-and language …

This chapter focuses on the question of how fine-grained grounding is. The author puts
forward a precise formulation of the question and explores the possible answers by means …

This article develops the Pure Logic of Iterated Full Ground (plifg), a logic of ground that can
deal with claims of the form “ϕ grounds that (ψ grounds θ)”—what we call iterated grounding …

The concept of grounding–of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts–has been a topic of
intensive philosophical and logical investigation over roughly the past two decades. Many …

Many authors have proposed that grounding is closely related to metaphysical laws.
However, we argue that no existing theory of metaphysical laws is sufficiently general. In this …

Priority Monism—the position that what is fundamental is one object, the Cosmos—has
recently been brought to the fore by Jonathan Schaffer, who has put forward a variety of …

Grounding is a hyperintensional notion: necessarily equivalent sentences need not be
equivalent from a ground-theoretic perspective. How fine-grained, exactly, is grounding …

Many more examples could easily be given. These in-virtue-of questions are also among
philosophy's oldest. Attempts to answer them stretch back to antiquity. And in-virtue-of …