Nowadays, the management of water is of paramount importance for modern societies due
to the high water-availability requirements. The application of water management schemes …

Grounding is often glossed as metaphysical causation, yet no current theory of grounding
looks remotely like a plausible treatment of causation. I propose to take the analogy between …

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 …

Short term hydrothermal scheduling (STHTS) is a non-linear, multi-modal and very complex
constrained optimization problem which has been solved using several conventional and …

stood in terms of ground. 1 Against this, Ted Sider has argued that ground is ill-suited for this
purpose. 2 Here I develop Sider's objection and offer a response. In doing so I develop a …

The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in
ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world …

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and
70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which …

This essay focuses on a recently prominent notion of (metaphysical) ground which is
distinctive for how it links metaphysics to explanation. Ground is supposed to serve both as …

Can there be grounding without necessitation? Can a fact obtain wholly in virtue of
metaphysically more fundamental facts, even though there are possible worlds at which the …

I argue—contra moderate grounding pluralists such as Kit Fine and more extreme grounding
pluralists such as Jessica Wilson—that there is fundamentally only one grounding/in-virtue …