What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? A new generation of metaphysicians address these and related questions, which are central to contemporary metaphysics.

• Introduction


• 1: Martin Glazier: Laws and the Completeness of the Fundamental


• 2: Naomi Thompson: Metaphysical Interdependence


• 3: Jacek Brzozowski: Monism and Gunk


• 4: Matthew Tugby: What Are Dispositional Properties?


• 5: Mark Jago: Essence and the Grounding Problem


• 6: Nicholas K. Jones: Object as a determinable


• 7: Sonia Roca-Royes: Rethinking Origin Essentialism (for artefacts)


• 8: Nathan Wildman: How (not) to be a modalist about essence

Mark Jago is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He writes on metaphysics, logic, epistemology, and philosophy of language.