The elucidations and regimentations of grounding offered in the literature standardly take it
to be a necessary connection. In particular, authors often assert, or at least assume, that if …

The notion of fundamentality, as it is used in metaphysics, aims to capture the idea that there
is something basic or primitive in the world. This metaphysical notion is related to the …

This entry focuses on two of the more historically important monisms: existence monism and
priority monism. Existence monism targets concrete objects and counts by tokens. This is the …

Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and
chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem …

Recently, the notion that most metaphysical theses are necessary has been challenged by a
number of authors. This article considers two different routes to contingentism in …

Metaphysicians frequently appeal to the idea that theoretical simplicity is truth conducive in
metaphysics, in the sense that, all other things being equal, simpler metaphysical theories …

A survey of two ongoing disputes about the modal import of grounding: Is a fact necessitated
by its grounds (the necessitarianism vs. contingentism dispute)? And is grounding an …

Special relativity has been understood by many as vindicating a tenseless conception of
time, denying the existence of tensed facts and a fortiori objective temporal passage. The …

According to priority monism, there are many concrete entities and there is one, the cosmos,
that is ontologically prior to all the others. I begin by clarifying this thesis as well as its main …

In Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that he doesn't exist.
In this book, he also defends the view that this book itself doesn't exist. But this did not …