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Article: Run Aground: Kit Fine’s Critique of Truthmaker Theory
Title | Run Aground: Kit Fine’s Critique of Truthmaker Theory |
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Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://pq.oxfordjournals.org |
Citation | The Philosophical Quarterly, 2017, v. 67, p. 443-463 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Kit Fine, the leading proponent of the metaphysical project of grounding theory, has offered a number of potentially devastating objections to truthmaker theory, the branch of metaphysics dedicated to exploring the ontological grounds for truths. In this paper I show what presuppositions about truthmaker theory Fine’s objections are based upon, and why they are false. I discuss four objections that Fine raises, and demonstrate how truthmaker theorists may respond to them. I then showcase the positive contribution that truthmaker theory can make to metaphysics, including its ability to speak to a core metaphysical topic (the ontological grounds for truths) that Fine’s approach to grounding must ultimately remain silent on. I conclude by exploring what I take to be the best option when it comes to understanding how truthmaking and grounding fit together. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243624 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.1 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.024 |
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dc.contributor.author | Asay, JF | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-25T02:57:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-25T02:57:26Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Philosophical Quarterly, 2017, v. 67, p. 443-463 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-8094 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243624 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Kit Fine, the leading proponent of the metaphysical project of grounding theory, has offered a number of potentially devastating objections to truthmaker theory, the branch of metaphysics dedicated to exploring the ontological grounds for truths. In this paper I show what presuppositions about truthmaker theory Fine’s objections are based upon, and why they are false. I discuss four objections that Fine raises, and demonstrate how truthmaker theorists may respond to them. I then showcase the positive contribution that truthmaker theory can make to metaphysics, including its ability to speak to a core metaphysical topic (the ontological grounds for truths) that Fine’s approach to grounding must ultimately remain silent on. I conclude by exploring what I take to be the best option when it comes to understanding how truthmaking and grounding fit together. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://pq.oxfordjournals.org | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Philosophical Quarterly | - |
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dc.title | Run Aground: Kit Fine’s Critique of Truthmaker Theory | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Asay, JF: asay@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Asay, JF=rp01955 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/pq/pqw072 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 275453 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 67 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 443 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 463 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000424530800001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0031-8094 | - |