Making things up /

We frequently speak of certain things or phenomena being built out of or based in others. 'Making Things Up' concerns these relations, which connect more fundamental things to less fundamental things: Karen Bennett calls these 'building relations'. She aims to illuminate what it...

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Introduction --
Building I: Breaking ground.
Some building relations ;
Two main axes of difference ;
What is a unity thesis? ;
Monism(s) and unity theses ;
Against generalist monism about building relations --
Building II: Characterizing the class.
Methodology ;
Directedness ;
Generativity ;
Ought more be added? ;
Wrapping up --
Causing.
Two kinds of causal taint ;
The first kind of causal taint : causation is a building relation ;
The second kind of causal taint : some particular building relations are themselves causal ;
Back to two kinds of causal taint --
Absolute fundamentality.
Methodological preliminaries ;
Independence ;
Completeness ;
The relation between independence and completeness ;
Interlude : Is budding well-founded? ;
In defense of independence over completeness ;
Naturalness ;
The relation between independence and naturalness ;
In defense of independence over naturalness ;
Resisting three arguments against defining it at all --
Relative fundamentality.
Accounting for relative fundamentality ;
Two kinds of primitivism about relative fundamentality ;
Characterizing relative fundamentality in terms of building ;
Sketching and rejecting a toy account ;
The messy reality ;
Clarifying the overall picture ;
Other matters arising ;
Deflationism vs. sophisticated primitivism --
Building building?
What is the question, exactly? ;
Arguing for anti-primitivism ;
Upwards anti-primitivism ;
The opposition ;
All in all --
In defense of the nonfundamental.
Flatworldism ;
Against flatworldism ;
Metaphysics is not the study of fundamental reality ;
The overall picture --
Objections to the second frade of causal involvement.
1. Verfasser:
Bennett, Karen
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
We frequently speak of certain things or phenomena being built out of or based in others. 'Making Things Up' concerns these relations, which connect more fundamental things to less fundamental things: Karen Bennett calls these 'building relations'. She aims to illuminate what it means to say that one thing is more fundamental than another.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-251972-7
0-19-183963-9
0-19-150514-5
Schlagworte:
Metaphysics.
Ontology.
Relation (Philosophy)
Causation.
First philosophy.
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