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Fall 2018
Linsky and Zalta present a possible way to reconcile the Barcan Formula with actualism by positing contingently non-concrete objects. However, it has been argued that an actualism based on the existence of contingently non- concrete objects is not genuinely actualist, because contingently...
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Fall 2023
This thesis introduces a new approach for grounding concepts to vision using visual descriptions, which are text-based descriptions of visual attributes. We hypothesize that these descriptions can enhance the grounding of concepts to vision, thereby improving performance in vision-language tasks....
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Fall 2024
There is a common intuition among many philosophers that chains of ground cannot go on forever. Metaphysical foundationalists believe that there cannot be infinite chains of ground, where one thing depends upon another for its existence without end. For example, if the existence of my desk...
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2016
Does the notion of ground, as it has recently been employed by metaphysicians, point to a single unified phenomenon (the “Unity Hypothesis”)? Jonathan Schaffer holds that the phenomenon of grounding exhibits the unity characteristic of a single genus. In defense of this hypothesis, Schaffer...