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Mellon Summer Faculty-Student Research Project
Summer 2016
J. M. Fritzman - Miguel D. Guerrero and Emma S. Moorhead
Groups, Individuals, and Metaphysical Grounding
Week 1
Monday, May 23:
Preliminary discussion of faculty-student collaborative research project: Groups, Individuals, and Metaphysical Grounding.
Tuesday, May 24:
Tuomas E. Tahko and E. Jonathan Lowe, “Ontological Dependence,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015 Edition), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/dependence-ontological/>.
Wednesday, May 25:
Ricki Bliss, and Kelly Trogdon, “Metaphysical Grounding,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), forthcoming URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/grounding/>.
Thursday, May 26:
G. Randolph Mayes, “Theories of Explanation,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, URL = <http://www.iep.utm.edu/explanat/>.
Mark B. Couch, “Causal Role Theories of Functional Explanation,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, URL = <http://www.iep.utm.edu/func-exp/>.
Friday, May 27:
Singletons Research Day.
Week 2
Monday, May 30:
Memorial Day.
Tuesday, May 31:
James Woodward, “Scientific Explanation,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/scientific-explanation/>.
Wednesday, June 1:
Brian McLaughlin and Karen Bennett, “Supervenience,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2014 Edition), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/supervenience/>.
Jaegwon Kim, “Explanatory Knowledge and Metaphysical Dependence,” Philosophical Issues 5, 1994, pages 51-69.
Thursday, June 2:
Phillip Bricker, “The Relation Between the General and the Particular: Entailment vs. Supervenience,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 2, edited by Dean Zimmerman, (Oxford University Press: 2006), pages 251-287.
Ross P. Cameron, “Turtles all the Way Down: Regress, Priority, and Fundamentality,” Philosophical Quarterly 58:230, January 2008, pages 1-14.
Friday, June 3:
Elizabeth Barnes, “Review of Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 13 October 2009, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24198/.
David Manley, “Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics," Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, edited by David J. Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pages 1-37.
Week 3
Monday, June 6:
Karen Bennett, “Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology," Metametaphysics, pages 38-76.
David J. Chalmers, “Ontological Anti-Realism,” Metametaphysics, pages 77-129.
Tuesday, June 7:
Matti Eklund, “Carnap and Ontological Pluralism,” Metametaphysics, pages 130-156.
Kit Fine, “The Question of Ontology,” Metametaphysics, pages 157-177.
Wednesday, June 8:
Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, “The Metaontology of Abstraction,” Metametaphysics, pages 178-212.
John Hawthorne, “Superficialism in Ontology,” Metametaphysics, pages 213-230.
Thursday, June 9:
Eli Hirsch, "Ontology and Alternative Languages,” Metametaphysics, pages 231-259.
Thomas Hofweber, “Ambitious, yet Modest, Metaphysics,” Metametaphysics, pages 260-289.
Friday, June 10:
Kris McDaniel, “Ways of Being,” Metametaphysics, pages 290-319.
Huw Price, “Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?,” Metametaphysics, pages 320-346.
Week 4
Monday, June 13:
Jonathan Schaffer, “On What Grounds What,” Metametaphysics, pages 347-383.
Theodore Sider, “Ontological Realism,” Metametaphysics, pages 384-423.
Tuesday, June 14:
Scott Soames, “Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute,” Metametaphysics, pages 424-443.
Amie L. Thomasson, “Answerable and Unanswerable Questions,” Metametaphysics, pages 444-471.
Wednesday, June 15:
Peter van Inwagen, “Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment,” Metametaphysics, pages 472-506.
Stephen Yablo, “Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?,” Metametaphysics, pages 507-525.
Thursday, June 16:
Fabrice Correia, 2010, “Grounding and Truth-Functions,” Logique et Analyse 53:211, 2010, pages 251-279.
Alexander Paseau, “Defining Ultimate Ontological Basis and the Fundamental Layer,” The Philosophical Quarterly 60:238, January 2010, pages 169-175.
Friday, June 17:
Gideon Rosen, “Metaphysical Dependence: Grounding and Reduction,” Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology, edited by Bob Hale and Aviv Hoffmann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pages 109-136.
J. R. G. Williams, “Fundamental and Derivative Truths,” Mind 119:473, 2010, pages 103-141.
Week 5
Monday, June 20:
Mark Wilson, “Beware the Blob: Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics IV, edited by Dean Zimmerman, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pages 275-320.
Roald Hoffmann, “What Might Philosophy of Science Look like If Chemists Built It?”, Synthese 155:3, April 2007, pages 321-336.
Tuesday, June 21:
Jonathan Schaffer, “Monism: The Priority of the Whole,” Philosophical Review 119:1, January 2010, pages 31–76.
Jonathan Schaffer, “The Least Discerning and Most Promiscuous Truthmaker,” Philosophical Quarterly, 60:239, April 2010, 307–324.
Theodore Sider, “Against Monism,” Analysis 67:1, January 2007, pages 1-7.
Wednesday, June 22:
Elijah Chudnoff, “What Should a Theory of Knowledge Do?,” Dialectica 65:4, 2011, pages 561-579.
C. S. Jenkins, “Is Metaphysical Dependence Irreflexive?,” The Monist 94:2, April 2011, pages 267-76.
Thursday, June 23:
Karen Bennett, “Construction Area (No Hardhat Required),” Philosophical Studies 154:1, 2011, pages 79-104.
Karen Bennett, “By our Bootstraps,” Philosophical Perspectives 25, 2011, pages 27-41.
Friday, June 24:
Singleton Research Day.
Week 6
Monday, June 27:
Paul Audi, 2012, “Grounding: Toward a Theory of the In-Virtue-Of Relation,” Journal of Philosophy 109:12, December 2012, pages 685-711.
Michael J. Clark, M. and David Liggins, “Recent Work on Grounding,” Analysis 72:4, October 2012, pages 812-823.
Tuesday, June 28:
Michael J. Raven, “Review of Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 26 April 2013, http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/39400/.
Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder, “Grounding: An Opinionated Introduction,” Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality, edited by Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder, (Cambridge University Press, 2012), pages 1-36.
Wednesday, June 29:
Kit Fine, “Guide to Ground,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 37-80.
Chris Daly, “Scepticism about Grounding,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 81-100.
Thursday, June 30:
Paul Audi, “A Clarification and Defense of the Notion of Grounding,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 101-121.
Jonathan Schaffer, “Grounding, Transitivity, and Contrastivity,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 122-138.
Friday, July 1:
Michael Della Rocca, “Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (in Leibniz and Spinoza),” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 139-164.
J. Robert G. Williams, “Requirements on Reality,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 165-185.
Week 7
Monday, July 4:
Independence Day.
Tuesday, July 5:
Singletons Research Day.
Wednesday, July 6:
Kathrin Koslicki, “Varieties of Ontological Dependence,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 186-213.
E. J. Lowe, “Asymmetrical Dependence in Individuation,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 214-233.
Thursday, July 7:
Jody Azzouni, “Simple Metaphysics and ‘Ontological Dependence’,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 234-253.
David Liggins, “Truth-Makers and Dependence,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 254-271.
Friday, July 8:
Stephen Barker, “Expressivism about Truth-Making,” Metaphysical Grounding, pages 272-293.
Michael J. Raven, “In Defense of Ground,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90:4, 2012, pages 687-701.
Week 8
Monday, July 11:
Ralf M. Bader, “Towards a Hyperintensional Theory of Intrinsicality,” Journal of Philosophy 110:10, October 2013, pages 525-563.
Ricki Leigh Bliss, “Viciousness and the Structure of Reality,” Philosophical Studies 166:2, 2013, November 2013 399-418.
Tuesday, July 12:
Louis deRosset, “Grounding Explanations,” Philosophers’ Imprint 13, 2013, pages 1-26.
Louis deRosset, 2013, “What is Weak Ground?,” Essays in Philosophy 14:1, 2013, pages 7-18.
Wednesday, July 13:
Paul Hovde and Troy Cross, “Grounding Relation(s): Introduction,” Essays in Philosophy 14:1, 2013, pages 1-6.
Jon Erling Litland, “On Some Counterexamples to the Transitivity of Grounding,” Essays in Philosophy 14:1, 2013, pages 19-32.
Thursday, July 14:
Avram Hiller, “Object-Dependence,” Essays in Philosophy 14:1, 2013, pages 33-55.
Stephan Krämer, “A Simpler Puzzle of Ground,” Thought 2:2, June 2013, pages 85-89.
Friday, July 15:
Michal J. Raven, “Is Ground a Strict Partial Order?” American Philosophical Quarterly 50:2, April 2013, pages 191-199.
Kelly Trogdon, “Grounding: Necessary or Contingent?” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 94:4, December 2013 465-485.
Week 9
Monday, July 18:
Elizabeth Barnes, “Emergence and Fundamentality,” Mind 121, October 2012, pages 873-901.
Shamik Dasgupta, “On the Plurality of Grounds,” Philosophers’ Imprint 14, 2014, pages 1-28.
Shamik Dasgupta, “On the Possibility of Physicalism,” Journal of Philosophy 110:9-10, 2014, pages 1-28.
Tuesday, July 19:
Jessica M Wilson, “No Work for a Theory of Grounding,” Inquiry, 57:5-6, 2014, pages 1-45.
Jonathan Schaffer, “Ground Rules: Lessons from Wilson,” Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground, edited by Kenneth Aizawa and Carl Gillet (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), forthcoming.
Wednesday, July 20:
Stephan Leuenberger, “Grounding and Necessity,” Inquiry 57:2, 2014, pages 151-174.
Stephan Leuenberger, “From Grounding to Supervenience?” Erkenntnis 79: 227-240.
Thursday, July 21:
Ricki Bliss, “Viciousness and Circles of Ground,” Metaphilosophy 45:2, April 2014, pages 245-256.
Sam Baron, Kristie Miller, and James Norton, “Groundless Truth,” Inquiry 57:2, 2014, pages 175-195.
Friday, July 22:
Aaron M. Griffith, “Truthmaking and Grounding,” Inquiry 57:2, 2014, pages 196-215.
Casper Storm Hansen, “Grounded Ungroundedness,” Inquiry 57:2, 2014, pages 216-243.
Week 10
Monday, July 25:
Jönne Kriener, “The Groundedness Approach to Class Theory,” Inquiry 57:2, 2014, pages 244-273.
Sam Baron, “The Priority of the Now,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 96:3, September 2015, pages 325-348.
Tuesday, July 26:
Michal J. Raven, “Ground,” Philosophy Compass 10:5, May 2015, pages 322-333.
Dan Marshall, “Intrinsicality and Grounding,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90:1, January 2015, pages 1-19.
Wednesday, July 27:
Thomas Kroedel and Moritz Schulz, “Grounding Mental Causation”, Synthese 193:6, June 2016, 1909-1923.
Thursday, July 28:
Olivier Sartenaer, “Synchronic vs. Diachronic Emergence: A Reappraisal”, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5:1, January 2015, pages 31-54.
Olivier Sartenaer, “Sixteen Years Later: Making Sense of Emergence (Again)”, Journal for General Philosophy of Science 47:1, April 2016, pages 79-103.
Friday, July 29:
Achim Stephan, “Varieties of Emergence,” Evolution and Cognition 5:1, 1999, pages 49-59.
Michael Kirchhoff, “In Search of Ontological Emergence: Diachronic, But Non-Supervenient”, Axiomathes 24:1, March 2014, pages 89-116.
Concluding discussion at Tandoor Indian Kitchen.
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