Consider the following claim: the truck drivers are engaged in a labor strike in virtue of
picketing. What sort of claim is this? Well, it seems clear what sort of claim it isn't. It isn't an …

What does' if'mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in
itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make …

The old Socratic questions—What is justice? What is courage?—call for definitions, not of
words or concepts, but of things. Justice and courage and the like were supposed to be …

The latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an 'intensional revolution': a great collective
effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world …

There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my
view, this analogy is no coincidence. Grounding and causation are alike because grounding …

I argue that, just like causal explanation requires laws of nature, so metaphysical
explanation requires laws of metaphysics. I offer a minimal rendition of the argument for laws …

Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason states that everything has an explanation. But
different notions of explanation yield different versions of this principle. Here a version is …

Recent metaphysics has turned its focus to two notions that are—as well as having a
common Aristotelian pedigree—widely thought to be intimately related: grounding and …

This paper explains and defends the idea that metaphysical necessity is the strongest kind
of objective necessity. Plausible closure conditions on the family of objective modalities are …

An overview of hyperintensionality is provided. Hyperintensional languages have
expressions with meanings that are more fine-grained than necessary equivalence. That is …