Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground

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London: Palgrave-Macmillan (2016)
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Part I -- Scientific Composition and the New Mechanism. - 1. Laura Franklin-Hall: New Mechanistic Explanation and the Need for Explanatory Constraints. - 2. Kenneth Aizawa: Compositional Explanation: Dimensioned Realization, New Mechanism, and Ground. - 3. Jens Harbecke: Is Mechanistic Constitution a Version of Material Constitution?. - 4. Derk Pereboom: Anti-Reductionism, Anti-Rationalism, and the Material Constitution of the Mental. Part II -- Grounding, Science, and Verticality in Nature. - 5. Jonathan Schaffer: Ground Rules: Lessons from Wilson. - 6. Jessica Wilson: The Unity and Priority Arguments for Grounding. - 7. Carl Gillett: The Metaphysics of Nature, Science, and the Rules of Engagement. - 8. Andrew Melnyk: Grounding and the Formulation of Physicalism. - 9. Alyssa Ney: Grounding in the Philosophy of Mind: A Defense.

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Grounding in the Philosophy of Mind: A Defense.Alyssa Ney
The Unity and Priority Arguments for Grounding.Jessica Wilson
New Mechanistic Explanation and the Need for Explanatory Constraints.  (pages 41-74)L. R. Franklin-Hall
The unity and priority arguments for Grounding.  (pages 171-204)Jessica M. Wilson
Grounding and the Formulation of Physicalism.  (pages 249-269)Andrew Melnyk

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Ken Aizawa
Rutgers University - Newark
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Northern Illinois University

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Fundamentality.Tuomas E. Tahko - 2023 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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