Title: Reality making /
Authors: Jago, Mark,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Reality; Metaphysics
Abstract: What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? Here a new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics.
Contents: Laws and the completeness of the fundamental / Martin Glazier -- Metaphysical interdependence / Naomi Thompson -- Monism and gunk / Jacek Brzozowski -- What are dispositional properties? / Matthew Tugby -- Essence and the grounding problem / Mark Jago -- Object as a determinable / Nicholas K. Jones -- Rethinking origin essentialism (for artefacts) / Sonia Roca-Royes -- How (not) to be a modalist about essence / Nathan Wildman.