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 …

A set of properties A supervenes upon another set B just in case no two things can differ with
respect to A-properties without also differing with respect to their B-properties. In slogan …

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 …

There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my
view, this analogy is no coincidence. Grounding and causation are alike because grounding …

I argue—contra moderate grounding pluralists such as Kit Fine and more extreme grounding
pluralists such as Jessica Wilson—that there is fundamentally only one grounding/in-virtue …

Grounding is not a Strict Order Page 1 Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2015)
517–534 C American Philosophical Association doi: 10.1017/apa.2014.22 Grounding is not …

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 …

In a growing number of papers, one encounters arguments to the effect that certain
philosophical views are objectionable because they would imply that there are necessary …

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 …

Grounding is not causation, and is not like causation, contra its contemporary characterizers.
Apparent similarities between causation and grounding are mostly superficial, and utilizing …