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 …

I assume the existence of a distinctive relation of non-causal dependence: the grounding
relation. Intuitive examples of grounding can help to elucidate the notion. Consider, for …

The view that some facts obtain in virtue of other facts is both natural and plausible. Causal
examples come to mind: if an event e caused an event f, then it sounds correct to say that the …

This much is agreed:“x makes it true that p” is a construction that signifies, if it signifies
anything at all, a relation borne to a truth-bearer by something else, a truth-maker. But it isn't …

A number of philosophers think that grounding is, in some sense, well-founded. This thesis,
however, is not always articulated precisely, nor is there a consensus in the literature as to …

Metaphysical grounding is standardly taken to be irreflexive: nothing grounds itself. Kit Fine
has presented some puzzles that appear to contradict this principle. I construct a particularly …

It is argued that if we take grounding to be univocal, then there is a serious tension between
truth‐grounding and one commonly assumed structural principle for grounding, namely …

The theory of truthmaking has long aroused skepticism from philosophers who believe it to
be tangled up in contentious ontological commitments and unnecessary theoretical …

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The idea that some objects are metaphysically “cheap” has wide appeal. An influential
version of the idea builds on abstractionist views in the philosophy of mathematics, on which …