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 Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in
ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world …

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 …

In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the
Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of …

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 …

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 …

I argue that there is an important similarity between causation and grounding. In particular I
argue that, just as there is a type of scientific explanation that appeals to causal mechanisms …

The aim of this paper is to bring recent work on metaphysical grounding to bear on the
phenomenon of social construction. It is argued that grounding can be used to analyze …

This paper develops and motivates a unification theory of metaphysical explanation, or as I
will call it, Metaphysical Unificationism. The theory's main inspiration is the unification …

I defend a novel view of how social kinds (eg, money, women, permanent residents) depend
on our mental states. In particular, I argue that social kinds depend on our mental states in …