Grounding nonreductivists claim that some (say biological) things are grounded in, but not reducible to more fundamental (say physical) matters.
In this new paper, I explicate the view using functions and argue that this solves Louis deRosset's connection problem:
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Functors solve the connection problem for nonreductivism - Synthese
This paper shows that functors can be used to solve the connection problem for grounding-based nonreductivism. Unlike previous attempts (such as Miller’s Essentialist Non-Reductivism and von Solodkoff...
