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Series:   Elements in Metaphysics

Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2024

Ricki Bliss
Ricki Bliss
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Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

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There is a long lineage of philosophers concerned with coming to understand what explains everything broadly construed, or within a certain, restricted domain. We call such explanations ultimate explanations. Contemporarily, philosophers of a certain stripe have devoted much attention to the notion of fundamentality - that there is something which is without explanation. This Element explores some of the connections between fundamentality and ultimate explanations both contemporarily and historically.
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groundingfundamentalityultimate explanationsmetaphysical foundationalism

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Series: Elements in Metaphysics
Online ISBN: 9781009089739
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Print publication: 04 April 2024

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