Metaphysical Infinitism and the Regress of <scp>B</scp>eing

Morganti, Matteo

doi:10.1111/meta.12080

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“…□ ∀x ∀y (∀P (Px ↔ Py) → x = y) 41 The coherence of infinitism about grounding was defended both in metaphysics and in the philosophy of physics. See, among others, Morganti (2014Morganti ( , 2018, Tahko (2014), Bohn (2018), andBliss (2019). Loss (2021) positively argues that, granted certain assumptions about grounding, there are no ungrounded facts.…”

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Anti-Haecceitism and Fundamentality

Scarpati

2021

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Is everything about reality either qualitative or somehow determined by the qualitative character of reality itself? Metaphysical anti-Haecceitism is often taken to be the claim that this is the case, and to entail that reality is fundamentally qualitative. In this paper, I (1) argue against the idea that metaphysical anti-Haecceitism should be characterized in such terms, and (2) defend a novel way to phrase such a view. This will be done by taking the main arguments for anti-Haecceitism as a guide and by singling out the proper commitments of a view that satisfies the desideratum set forth by such arguments. The phrasing I shall offer will help tell the issue of anti-Haecceitism apart from some concerns about fundamentality that, I will contend, are orthogonal to it—among them, the question whether there is fundamentality at all.

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Section: Anti-haecceitism Without Fundamentalitymentioning

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Anti-Haecceitism and Fundamentality

Scarpati

2021

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“…28 Infinitely descending grounding structures have been widely discussed, although they are not generally explicitly said to be infinitely ascending as well (i.e., such that every fact grounds some other fact). For some recent partial defenses of infinitely descending grounding structures, see Schaffer (2003), Bliss (2013) and Morganti (2014). Bohn (2009) defends the possibility of "hunky" worlds, in which every object has further proper parts, and every object is a proper part of something else.…”

Section: Non-foundationalist Grounding Structures Theoretical Unification Metaphysical Lawsmentioning

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Metaphysical Foundationalism and Theoretical Unification

Brenner

2021

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Some facts ground other facts. Some fact is fundamental iff there are no other facts which partially or fully ground that fact. According to metaphysical foundationalism, every non-fundamental fact is fully grounded by some fundamental fact(s). In this paper I examine and defend some neglected considerations which might be made in favor of metaphysical foundationalism. Building off of work by Ross Cameron, I suggest that foundationalist theories are more unified than, and so in one important respect simpler than, non-foundationalist theories, insofar as foundationalist theories allow us to derive all non-fundamental facts from some fundamental fact(s). Non-foundationalist theories can enjoy a similar sort of theoretical unification only by taking on objectionable metaphysical laws.

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“…Metaphysical infinitism is the view that are, or might be, infinitely descending chains of grounding, for a further explanation and defense of this view, see(Morganti, 2014).…”

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Fundamentality and the Existence of God

Sijuwade

2021

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In this article, I seek to assess the extent to which Theism, the claim that there is a God, can provide a true fundamental explanation for the existence of certain entities within the layered structure of reality. More precisely, I assume the cogency of Swinburne's explanatory framework and seek to resituate it within a new philosophical context-that of the field of contemporary metaphysics-which will enable me to develop a true fundamental explanation for the existence of the nonfundamental entities that fill up the various levels of the layered structure of reality. And thus, given the truth of this type of explanation, we will have one more good reason to believe in the existence of God.

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Metaphysical Infinitism and the Regress of Being

Cited by 23 publications

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