| dc.contributor.advisor | Stephen Yablo. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Richardson, Kevin Andrew | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-16T20:05:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-16T20:05:24Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113777 | |
| dc.description | Thesis: Ph. D. in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2017. | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-98). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My dissertation consists of a series of papers on grounding pluralism, the broad view that there are multiple kinds of metaphysical grounding relations. Specifically, I argue that there are three species of grounding: why-grounding (which tells us why things are the case), how-grounding (which tells us how things are the case), and what-grounding (which tells us what it is for things to be the case). I call the resulting view wh-pluralism. I show how wh-pluralism can resolve various debates within metaphysics. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Kevin Andrew Richardson. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 98 pages | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linguistics and Philosophy. | en_US |
| dc.title | Grounding pluralism | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. in Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 1022564827 | en_US |
