However, mathematical explanations are non-causal. Because of an emphasis put on physics, philosophy of science tends to centre on causal explanation, while marginalizing notions of non-causal explanation. As early as 1323, he became entangled in the controversy. It aims to bring together two debates that are currently more or less kept apart, namely the current debate on metaphysical explanation and the old but ongoing debate on explanation in philosophy of science. William Ockhams interests were turned to political philo- sophy by the circumstances of his life. I aim at correcting this identification by arguing that Scotus and Ockham appealed to a kind of non-causal dependence that corresponds to the contemporary notion of grounding in order to explain the idea of logical validity, the relation between the Persons of the Trinity and their properties, the hypostatic union, and the truthmakers of modal truths.Īpart from its exegetical and historical objective, the project also has a philosophical goal. Until now, scholars have identified the medieval counterpart to grounding as the relation that holds between substance and accident. The main aim of this project is to fill this gap in our knowledge of the history of the notion of grounding. The recent renewal of Aristotelianism in metaphysics has given rise to a renewed interest in scholastic views on the metaphysics of fundamentality, but the conceptions of grounding in the Aristotelian tradition of the Middle Ages are widely unknown. William of Ockham is a major figure in late medieval thought. However, it has sometimes been argued that philosophical reflection on grounding goes back to antiquity. Until recently the generally held view has been that sustained discussion of grounding is, with a few exceptions such as Bolzano and Husserl, a recent phenomenon. But Robert Long, Infinitecs brilliant CEO, has not only refused to sign off on the release of Epipro, he has given Hamilton a promotion and a million dollar. the research domain which investigates how some phenomena are built from more fundamental phenomena. Apparently, this situation served as the main motivation for the radical program of the Franciscan theologian William Ockham (c. In this sense, grounding links metaphysics to explanation and is a core notion in the metaphysics of fundamentality, i.e. Indeed, grounding typically expresses a relation of priority and dependence between things. Many philosophers take "grounding" to refer to a distinctive kind of metaphysical explanation. The aim of this project is to investigate the conception of grounding in fourteenth-century medieval philosophy, with a special emphasis on the realist Duns Scotus (1266-1308) and his nominalist opponent William of Ockham (1285-1345).
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