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Chains of Being - Infinite Regress, Circularity, and Metaphysical Explanation (Hardcover)
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Chains of Being - Infinite Regress, Circularity, and Metaphysical Explanation (Hardcover)
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In Chains of Being, Ross P. Cameron argues for both Metaphysical
Infinitism, the view that there can be infinitely descending chains
of ontological dependence or grounding, with no bottom level of
fundamental things or facts, and Metaphysical Holism, the view that
there can be circles of ontological dependence or grounding.
Cameron argues against the widespread orthodoxy of Metaphysical
Foundationalism: that everything in reality is ultimately accounted
for by a base class of fundamental phenomena. In doing so, he makes
the case against another widespread orthodoxy: that relations like
grounding and ontological dependence are explanatory relations.
Cameron provides an alternative account of metaphysical explanation
that does not tie explanation to determination relations like
grounding and ontological dependence, and he shows how explanation
works in infinitist and holistic metaphysics. Embracing the
possibility of infinite regress and circularity can be
theoretically fruitful, as is shown by applying it to a number of
cases across a wide range of philosophical areas, including:
non-well-founded set theory, mathematical structuralism, the
metaphysics of persons, the metaphysics of gender and sexuality,
the semantic paradoxes, and others. In the course of exploring
these applications, Cameron defends distinctive views concerning
when an infinite regress is vicious, the nature of truth,
non-classical logic and dialetheism, social construction, and more.
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