According to many contemporary metaphysicians, we ought to theorize in terms of
grounding because of its promise to explicate the idea of reality having a layered structure …

Can a fact constituted by an object A be grounded exclusively in facts which do not entail A
as a constituent? I call this the problem of extrinsic grounding. Prima facie, it seems that …

As it is presently employed, grounding permits grounding many things from one ground. In
this paper, I show why this is a mistake by pushing for a uniqueness principle on grounding …

Many contemporary epistemologists have been focusing on questions of epistemic value. A
focal question in whether and why knowledge is of more epistemic value than true belief; but …

This thesis explores the role that essence plays in metaphysical explanation. In the first
chapter of my dissertation,“Essentialist Non-Reductivism” I develop the idea that essences …

The alienation argument presented in the previous chapter suggests nominalism is in
trouble. But as I said, I am ambivalent about that argument. It seems that this kind of …