Grounding in the Philosophy of Mind: A Defense

Abstract

Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction: Vertical Relations in Science, Philosophy, and the World: Understanding the New Debates over Verticality1 ; Part 1: A Simple Map of the New Debates: Some (Widely Acceptable?) Theses; Part 2: The State of Play About Verticality: A Minimal Overview of Three Research Traditions; 2.1: Philosophy of Science: A Theoretical Vacuum, the New Mechanism, and Neo-Causal Approaches; 2.2: Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics of Mind/Metaphysics of Science: The Functionalist Inheritance 2.3: Analytic Metaphysics: Grounding and Verticality Frameworks from the Abstract Realm 2.4: Summary: The Support for Competition and the Dialectical Importance of Scientific Composition; Part 3: Pressing Meta-Methodological Issues: Types of Account, Project, Assessment and Meta-Justification; 3.1: Types of V-Framework and Their Intended Projects; 3.2: What Must Competing V-Frameworks Do to Be Successful?; 3.3: Meta-Justifying V-Frameworks About Verticality in the World? Understanding the Appeal of Meta-Success; 4: Summary of Coming Chapters; References Part I: Scientific Composition and the New Mechanism2: New Mechanistic Explanation and the Need for Explanatory Constraints; Introduction; The Mechanistic Explanatory Framework; Formulating Explanatory Constraints; The Causal Standard; The Carving Standard; Good Parts as Components; Good Parts as Mutually Manipulable; Good Parts as Scientifically Approved; The Levels Standard; Conclusion; References; 3: Compositional Explanation: Dimensioned Realization, New Mechanism, and Ground; New Mechanism and Dimensioned Realization; Grounding and Dimensioned Realization; Conclusion The Exclusion Problem and Donaldson's Criticism Identity; Two Objections; References; Part II: Grounding, Science, and Verticality in Nature; 6: Ground Rules: Lessons from Wilson; A Brief Introduction to Grounding; Are Grounding Claims Informative?; Are Grounding Claims Helpful?; Wilson's Pluralistic Framework; Structural Equation Models to the Rescue; References; 7: The Unity and Priority Arguments for Grounding; Introduction; Preliminaries; The Dialectical Import of Grounding; The Relata; Ideology and Ontology; The Unity Argument; Against Premise 1; Against Premise 2