Can there be grounding without necessitation? Can a fact obtain wholly in virtue of
metaphysically more fundamental facts, even though there are possible worlds at which the …

The elucidations and regimentations of grounding offered in the literature standardly take it
to be a necessary connection. In particular, authors often assert, or at least assume, that if …

Recent metaphysics has turned its focus to two notions that are—as well as having a
common Aristotelian pedigree—widely thought to be intimately related: grounding and …

Recent interest in the nature of grounding is due in part to the idea that purely modal notions
are too coarse‐grained to capture what we have in mind when we say that one thing is …

The concept of supervenience and a regimented concept of grounding are often taken to
provide rival explications of pre-theoretical concepts of dependence and determination …

A survey of two ongoing disputes about the modal import of grounding: Is a fact necessitated
by its grounds (the necessitarianism vs. contingentism dispute)? And is grounding an …

This article explores the concept of metaphysically opaque grounding, a largely neglected
form of metaphysical grounding that challenges the commonly held assumptions that …

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 …

Ground is a distinctively metaphysical notion of explanation. Often expressed with the
phrase'in virtue of', ground has recently found some popularity among metaphysicians. In …