Scientific Composition and Metaphysical Ground

1. Introduction: Vertical Relations in Science, Philosophy, and the World: Understanding the New Debates over Verticality1

Kenneth Aizawa, Carl Gillett

Part I. Scientific Composition and the New Mechanism

2. New Mechanistic Explanation and the Need for Explanatory Constraints
L. R. Franklin-Hall

3. Compositional Explanation: Dimensioned Realization, New Mechanism, and Ground
Kenneth Aizawa

4. Is Mechanistic Constitution a Version of Material Constitution?
Jens Harbecke

5. Anti-Reductionism, Anti-Rationalism, and the Material Constitution of the Mental
Derk Pereboom

Part II. Grounding, Science, and Verticality in Nature

6. Ground Rules: Lessons from Wilson
Jonathan Schaffer

7. The Unity and Priority Arguments for Grounding
Jessica Wilson

8. The Metaphysics of Nature, Science, and the Rules of Engagement
Carl Gillett

9. Grounding and the Formulation of Physicalism
Andrew Melnyk

10. Grounding in the Philosophy of Mind: A Defense
Alyssa Ney

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics