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Naomi Thompson is a lecturer at University of Bristol, Department of Philosophy. They are interested in Fundamentality, Realism and Anti-Realism, Explanation in the Sciences, Misc, Metaontology, Mathematical Explanation, Natural Properties, and Grounding.
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First Horn: Metaphysical Explanation. Why accept that explanation, and in particular metaphysical explanation, has pragmatic features? A quick survey of the literature on ordinary explanation (which I do not have the space to rehearse here) reveals that all the major theories of explanation build features of the explanation-seeker into their accoun...
Second Horn: The Grounding–Explanation Connection. It is unappealing to deny that metaphysical explanation has some agent-relative features, and so to resolve the grounding–explanation problem we must now consider re-evaluating the purported link between grounding and metaphysical explanation. I take it that there are broadly three ways to understa...
Conclusion. Not much attention has been paid to the nature of metaphysical explanation in the literature. Appeals to metaphysical explanation are made in order to shed light on the notion of grounding, but investigation into the nature of metaphysical explanation uncovers the grounding–explanation problem—a tension between our attitude to explanati...
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1 de feb. de 2024 · Making Things Up By Karen Bennett Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 272, £45 ISBN: 9780-1-996-82-683
Naomi Thompson is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Southampton. Discerning the Structure of Reality Metaphysics is often described as the area of philosophy (or at least as one of the areas of philosophy) that deals with the “big questions”; it is concerned, at the most general level, with what there is, and with what it’s like.
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This metaphysical notion is related to the vernacular use of “fundamental”, but philosophers have also put forward various technical definitions of the notion. Among the most influential of these is the definition of absolute fundamentality in terms of ontological independence or ungroundedness.
