Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations

Download or read book Grounding, Fundamentality and Ultimate Explanations written by Ricki Bliss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.