Taking causing out of Bennett's Making Things Up

Jonathan Schaffer

doi:10.1080/0020174X.2019.1656913

Taking causing out of Bennett's Making Things Up

Jonathan Schaffer

School of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy

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In Making Things Up, Bennett defends the intriguing idea that causation should be included among the building (grounding) relations. I critique Bennett’s arguments for inclusion, and claim that inclusion distorts her own treatments of causation, relative fundamentality, and absolute fundamentality. Instead, I argue for treating causation and grounding as separate species of generative, explanatory difference-making.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	722-744
Number of pages	23
Journal	Inquiry (United Kingdom)
Volume	63
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1656913
State	Published - Aug 8 2020

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Philosophy
Health Policy

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Metaphysics
dependence
grounding

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