The Logic of Grounding

This Element provides a comprehensive and systematic picture of the contemporary development of the logic of grounding.

Fabrice Correia (Author)

9781009547802, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 January 2025

94 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.277 kg

The concept of grounding – of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts – has been a topic of intensive philosophical and logical investigation over roughly the past two decades. Many philosophers take grounding to deserve a central place in metaphysical theorizing, in great part because it is thought to do a better job than other concepts – e.g., reduction and supervenience – at capturing certain phenomena. Studies on the logic of grounding have largely been conducted with this philosophical background in mind. In this Element, I try to give a faithful picture of the contemporary development of the logic of grounding in a way that is both reasonably comprehensive and reasonably systematic.

Introduction
1. The jungle of grounding
2. Pure logics
3. Impure logics
4. Further topics
Appendix: Labelled Trees
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Philosophy: logic [HPL]