Michael J. Raven is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria and Affiliate Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Washington, Co-Chief Editor of Metaphysics , and a founding member of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative. His research focuses on metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, and epistemology.

This Handbook surveys the state of the art on ground as well as its connections and applications to other topics. The central issues of ground are discussed in 37 chapters, all written exclusively for this volume by a wide range of leading experts.

Introduction 1. Ancient 2. Aristotelian Demonstration 3. Medieval and Modern 4. Principle of Sufficient Reason 5. Bolzano 6. Austro-German Phenomenologists 7. Dependence 8. Explanation 9. Meta-ground 10. Necessity 11. Skeptical Doubts 12. Anti-skeptical Rejoinders 13. Varieties 14. Logics 15. Granularity 16. Infinite Descent 17. Strict Partial Order 18. Puzzles 19. Analyticity 20. Cause 21. Emergence 22. Essence 23. Fundamentality 24. Modality 25. Ontology 26. Realism 27. Structure 28. Truthmaking 29. Identity 30. Laws of Metaphysics 31. Laws of Nature 32. Logic 33. Mind 34. Normativity 35. Physicalism 36. Semantics 37. Social Entities