Varieties of dependence : ontological dependence, grounding, supervenience, response-dependence

The world we live in is a rich and varied place. It contains such diverse things as elementary particles and magnetic fields, mass demonstrations and the French nation, Socrates paleness, his unit set and the primary colours. But, arguably, these items are not all on a par. Rather, the world around us exhibits significant structure: some features are more fundamental than others, some phenomena depend on other phenomena, and certain things exist only because others do. This collection focusses on four notions that have been used to formulate such metaphysical claims about the structure of the world: ontological dependence, grounding, supervenience, and response dependence. For each of these notions, it includes state of the art survey papers introducing the reader to the relevant issues, concepts and distinctions as well as original research papers by leading researchers in their fields. The collection thus aims both at the novice reader interested in this exciting and quickly developing part of metaphysics as well as the expert looking for original contributions that advance the state of debate. Introduction Miguel Hoeltje 9 Part 1: Surveys Ontological Dependence: An Opinionated Survey Kathrin Koslicki 31 Substance and Independence in Aristotle Phil Corkum 65 An Introduction to Grounding Kelly Trogdon 97 Supervenience: A Survey Alex Steinberg 123 Different Notions of Response-Dependence Jussi Haukioja 167 Part II: Research Papers Some Varieties of Metaphysical Dependence EJ Lowe 193 Explanation and Fundamentality CSI Jenkins 211 No Free Lunch Louis de Rosset 243 Metaphysical Grounds and Essence Fabrice Correia 271 The Dependence of Truth on Being: Is There a Problem for Minimalism? Stefano Caputo 297 Supervenience Among Classes of Relations Stephan Leuenberger 325 Multiple-Domain Supervenience for Non-Classical Mereologies Ralf M Bader 347 Response-Dependence and Conditional Fallacy Problems Eline Busck Gundersen 369 Rigid vs Flexible Response-Dependent Properties Don López de Sa 393 Name Index 419 Subject Index 423 List of Contributors 429