Yannic Kappes (@yannickappes.bsky.social)

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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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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... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05343-6?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251105&utm_content=10.1007/s11229-025-05343-6