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50 - Jonathan Schaffer: Monism, Grounding, and The Fundamental Level of Reality

50 - Jonathan Schaffer: Monism, Grounding, and The Fundamental Level of Reality

Robinson's Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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Jonathan Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is an acclaimed
metaphysician with a unique mind and approach to philosophy (and
who has exquisite taste in epigraphs). Jonathan is best known for
his work on monism, in which he contends that the cosmos is the
lone fundamental object in reality, and on the grounding
relation. He and Robinson begin by exploring monism, including
its relationship to contemporary developments in physics, and
then move on to the grounding relation, explicating just what
this is and how it marks a departure from the dominant Quinean
view of metaphysics.

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Outline:

00:00 In This Episode

1:07 Introduction

4:54 Jonathan’s Epigraphs

10:02 What Is a Monist?

14:11 How Jonathan Became a Monist

17:06 Breeds of Monism

24:09 Mereological Nihilism

39:14 Have Jonathan’s Views Shifted Over The Years?

41:25 The Ontological Priority of the Whole

48:16 Monism and Quantum Entanglement

54:42 Occam’s Laser

59:40 Modal Considerations for Monism

1:03:17 Jonathan’s Interest in Grounding

1:06:33 Quinean Metaphysics and Grounding

1:15:22 The Aristotelian View of Metaphysics

1:18:21 Carnap and Grounding

1:21:33 What Grounds What?

1:26:32 Debunking Metaphysical Intuitions With Cognitive Science

1:39:38 Ground Functionalism

1:48:58 Grounding in Feminist Metaphysics

1:55:30 Jonathan’s Philosophical Program

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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