Journal Article10.1080/0020174X.2015.1128848
Do We Need Grounding
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TL;DR: Wilson as mentioned in this paper argues that such a notion is unnecessary to describe the structure of the world: that we can make do with specific dependence relations such as the part-whole relation or the determinate-determinable relation, together with a notion of absolute fundamentality.
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Abstract: Many have been tempted to invoke a primitive notion of grounding to describe the way in which some features of reality give rise to others. Jessica Wilson argues that such a notion is unnecessary to describe the structure of the world: that we can make do with specific dependence relations such as the part–whole relation or the determinate–determinable relation, together with a notion of absolute fundamentality. In this paper I argue that such resources are inadequate to describe the particular ways in which some parts of reality give rise to others, and thus that we do in fact need grounding.
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Grounded Disease: Constructing the Social from the Biological in Medicine
TL;DR: This paper explains how the metaphysical relation of grounding can be used to tie a socially-constructed account of diseases and their classification to their underlying biological and behavioural states, and generalises the position by disambiguating several varieties of normativism.
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Grounding and metaphysical explanation: it’s complicated
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role grounding plays in explanation does not justify attributing to grounding whatever nature we think it has, and most likely does not give us any special reason to think grounding exists.
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