The papers in The Epistemology of Grounding investigate how we can know what grounds what and discover metaphysical explanations. Questions about reality’s metaphysical structure – and thus what grounds what – are ubiquitous across philosophy. This volume contains new insight into how we can answer such questions and thus into how to better understand reality’s structure. Its expert contributions include new work on conceptualism and the logic of grounding, abduction and inference to the best ex…
Read moreThe papers in The Epistemology of Grounding investigate how we can know what grounds what and discover metaphysical explanations. Questions about reality’s metaphysical structure – and thus what grounds what – are ubiquitous across philosophy. This volume contains new insight into how we can answer such questions and thus into how to better understand reality’s structure. Its expert contributions include new work on conceptualism and the logic of grounding, abduction and inference to the best explanation, grounding in the sciences, knowledge of grounding on the basis of essence and identity, and an account of perceptual knowledge of grounding. Together, these contributions address an urgent need in the literature and will interest a broad philosophical audience interested in grounding and its epistemology, as well as metaphysics and its methodology more generally.
