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Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality’s inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what is less fundamental exist and be the way it is. Flatworldism is a view I have so far tended to reject in…

Pre-Read session on Lowe, E.J. (2003). ‘Identity, Individuality, and Unity’, Philosophy, Vol. 78, No. 305, 321–336. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3752058

Pre-Read session on Meirav, A. (2003). Wholes, Sums and Unities, Kluwer. .

  Abstract: Grounding and causation are both determination relations. Causation is typically understood to relate events through time, such that causes determine their effects. The throwing of the rock causes the window to break. Grounding is typically understood to relate facts at a single time, such that grounds determine their groundees. The microphysical constitution of…

Pre-Read session on Priest (2014). One, OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688258.001.0001

Pre-Read session on Jones, N. “How to unify” Ergo 5, 2018 https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.031