Reality and its structure: Essays in fundamentality
Reality and its structure: Essays in fundamentality
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现实及其结构：基础性论文
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2018
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G. Priest
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R. Bliss;G. Priest
本书汇集了来自领先和新兴学者的14篇文章，这些文章讨论了与被称为形而上学基础主义的观点有关的问题，并探讨了关于其替代方案的可能性。根据基础主义者的观点，现实是有层次的，由形而上学的依赖关系排列的实体链终止于由一致的和偶然的实体构成的基本基础。本书中的每一篇文章都涉及这些核心承诺中至少一个的某个方面。必须有什么基本的东西吗？现实是有等级结构的吗？我们为什么要成为基础主义者？形而上学的无限性可能吗？形而上学融贯论可能吗？如果我们允许不一致的基本原则，现实会是什么样子？这些都是目前文献中很少提出的相关问题，也正是本书要解决的问题。因此，这本书旨在为形而上学的依赖性开辟一个比目前更广阔的视角，并指出探索这一主题的新思维途径的方法。
This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading and emerging scholars that address issues relating to the view that has come to be known as metaphysical foundationalism, and explore possibilities regarding its alternatives. According to the foundationalist, reality is hierarchically arranged with chains of entities ordered by metaphysical dependence relations that terminate in a fundamental ground populated by consistent and contingent entities. Each essay in this volume addresses some aspect or other of at least one of these core commitments. Must there be anything fundamental? Is reality hierarchically structured? Why should we be foundationalists? Is metaphysical infinitism possible? Is metaphysical coherentism possible? What does reality look like if we allow inconsistent fundamentalia? These are the sorts of pertinent questions seldom asked in the current literature, and exactly the kinds of questions addressed in this volume. The volume, then, aims to open up a much broader perspective on metaphysical dependence than currently exists, and point to ways of exploring new avenues of thought on the subject.