Writing the Book of the World

Structure: a first look......Page 10
Philosophical skepticism about structure......Page 12
Structure in metaphysics......Page 15
Understanding......Page 20
Primitivism supported......Page 21
Epistemology......Page 23
Against reduction......Page 27
Against subjectivity......Page 31
The privilege of the physical......Page 32
Explanation and laws......Page 34
Reference magnetism......Page 37
Induction and confirmation......Page 50
Intrinsic structure in physical spaces......Page 55
Nonsubstantive questions......Page 61
Substantivity characterized......Page 63
Conventionality......Page 73
Subjectivity......Page 76
Epistemic value......Page 81
Objectivity of structure......Page 86
The challenge of metaphysical deflationism......Page 88
Personal identity, causation......Page 95
The metaphysics room......Page 96
Substantivity in nonfundamental disputes......Page 100
Extended simples......Page 102
Metametaphysics as just more metaphysics......Page 106
Beyond the predicate......Page 109
The reason to generalize......Page 110
Inapplicability of the similarity test......Page 112
No entities......Page 115
Unclear epistemology?......Page 123
Logical conventionalism......Page 124
Complete?......Page 133
Pure?......Page 135
Purity and connection......Page 138
Metaphysical semantics......Page 141
Completeness and purity reformulated......Page 145
Metaphysics after conceptual analysis......Page 147
Metaphysical semantics for quantifiers......Page 149
Metaphysics and the study of language......Page 153
Nonfundamental ground......Page 156
Subpropositional?......Page 160
Absolute?......Page 161
Absolutism and comparative structure......Page 162
Absolutism and infinite descent......Page 166
Determinate?......Page 171
Fundamental?......Page 172
Fine's concepts......Page 177
First Finean view: grounding and reality......Page 178
Ground and purity......Page 179
Ground and infinite descent......Page 181
Explanation of fundamental truths......Page 183
Combinatorialism about fundamentality......Page 185
Combinatorialism about determinacy......Page 187
No fundamental truths......Page 188
Nihilism and deflationism......Page 189
Truthmaking......Page 190
Truthmaking as a theory of fundamentality......Page 195
Schaffer: entity-grounding......Page 201
Entity-fundamentality......Page 204
Ontology......Page 206
Ontological deflationism......Page 208
Ontological realism......Page 209
Ontologese......Page 212
Predicates not the issue......Page 214
Quantifier variance......Page 217
Quantifier variance and domain restriction......Page 220
The semantic argument......Page 224
No foundation......Page 226
No epistemic high ground......Page 231
Indispensability......Page 232
Easy ontology......Page 233
Analyticity......Page 236
Against easy ontology......Page 242
Other forms of easy ontology......Page 243
Metaontology and conceptions of fundamentality......Page 246
Ontological commitment......Page 249
Quantifiers versus terms......Page 251
NonQuinean first-order ontology......Page 255
Higher-order quantification......Page 256
Fundamental logic......Page 265
Hard choices......Page 266
Nonfundamental metalogic......Page 273
Logical pluralism......Page 276
Objectivity in model theory......Page 279
Classical logic and fundamentality......Page 282
Presentism......Page 293
Presentist ideology: quantified tense logic......Page 294
Is dispute over presentism substantive?......Page 297
Passage......Page 301
Williamson on saturation and contingency......Page 303
Change and saturation......Page 306
Talk of saturation is legitimate......Page 307
The metaphysics of saturation......Page 310
Varieties of passage......Page 315
No fundamental modality......Page 325
A Humean strategy for reduction......Page 327
Logical consequence and mathematical truth......Page 332
Laws of metaphysics......Page 335
Determinates and determinables......Page 340
Contextualism......Page 342
The necessary a posteriori......Page 344
Micro-reduction......Page 346
De re modality......Page 350
Family resemblances......Page 352
Spreading arbitrariness......Page 353
A Worldview......Page 356