Getting priority straight

deRosset, Louis

doi:10.1007/s11098-010-9538-8

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“…And there are also objections that target common elements of priority monism and atomism. deRosset (), for example, argues that the priority monist and atomist are both committed to an implausible principle concerning explanation, viz. the existence and features of the concrete objects alleged by common sense and abetted by science can be completely explained solely by reference to the existence and properties of other things.…”

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Priority monism

Trogdon

2017

Philosophy Compass

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According to priority monism, there are many concrete entities and there is one, the cosmos, that is ontologically prior to all the others. I begin by clarifying this thesis as well as its main rival, priority atomism. I show how the disagreement between the priority monist and atomist ultimately turns on how the thesis of concrete foundationalism is implemented. While it's standard to interpret priority monism as being metaphysically noncontingent, I show that there are two competing, prima facie plausible conceptions of metaphysical necessity—the essence‐based and law‐based conceptions—on which it is reasonable to view its modal status differently. This, I suggest, is good for the priority monist—various objections to the thesis presuppose that it's metaphysically noncontingent, while there are arguments for the thesis that don't make the presupposition.

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Priority monism

Trogdon

2017

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“…There is also a further technical term that is used synonymously with ‘grounding’, namely, ‘priority’ (Schaffer, ; deRosset, ). But obviously, this term is as much in need of elucidation as ‘grounding’ itself.…”

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Grounding Nominalism

Schulte

2018

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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The notion of grounding has gained increasing acceptance among metaphysicians in recent years. In this paper, I argue that this notion can be used to formulate a very attractive version of (property) nominalism, a view that I call ‘grounding nominalism’. Simplifying somewhat, this is the view that all properties are grounded in things. I argue that this view is coherent and has a decisive advantage over competing versions of nominalism: it allows us to accept properties as real, while fully accommodating nominalist intuitions. Finally, I defend grounding nominalism against several seemingly troublesome objections.

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“…Proponents of theses akin to necessity include Audi (), Correia (), Dasgupta (manuscript‐a), deRosset (), Fine (), Rosen (), and Witmer et al . ().…”

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Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?

Trogdon

2013

Pacific Philosophical Qtr

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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 grounded in another. Grounding not being purely modal in character, however, is compatible with it having modal consequences. Is grounding a necessary relation? In this article I argue that the answer is 'yes' in the sense that propositions corresponding to full grounds modally entail propositions corresponding to what they ground. The argument proceeds upon two substantive principles: the first is that there is a broadly epistemic constraint on grounding, while the second links this constraint with Fine's Aristotelian notion of essence. Many think grounding is necessary in something like the sense specified above, but just why it's necessary is an issue that hasn't been carefully addressed. If my argument is successful, we now know why grounding is necessary.

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Getting priority straight

Cited by 63 publications

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Priority monism

Priority monism

Grounding Nominalism

Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?

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