What is priority monism?
reply to Kovacs
Additional information
Authors
Type
Journal Article
Year
2023
Language
English
Abstract
Priority monism is the view that the cosmos is the basic concrete entity on which each of its parts depends. Kovacs has recently argued that none of the classical notions of dependence could be used to spell out priority monism. I argue that four notions of dependence – namely rigid existential dependence, generic existential dependence, explanatory dependence, and generalised explanatory dependence – can indeed be used to spell out priority monism and specify the conditions under which this is possible.
Keywords
Priority monism, Dependence, Grounding , Mereology , Metaphysical priority
Journal
Inquiry
Pages (or article number)
1–13
Diffusion
License
CC BY
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Hybrid
