Grounding Pluralism: Why and How
Erkenntnis
Grounding
Metaphysics
Metametaphysics
Fundamentality
Pluralism
Abstract
Grounding pluralism is the view that there are multiple kinds of grounding. In this essay, I motivate and defend an explanation-theoretic view of grounding pluralism. Specifically, I argue that there are two kinds of grounding: why-grounding—which tells us why things are the case—and how-grounding—which tells us how things are the case.