Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................ 1
Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster and Zeeya Merali
Fundamental?........................................................................................................
5Emily Adlam
Against Fundamentalism..................................................................................... 13
Matthew Leifer
The Politics of Fundamentally............................................................................. 27
Alyssa Ney
Of Lego and Layers (and Fundamentalism)....................................................... 37
Dean Rickles
Fundamentality Here, Fundamentality There, Fundamentality
Everywhere.......................................................................................................... 49
Marc Seguin
Mind Before Matter: Reversing the Arrow of Fundamentally........................... 63
Markus P. Muller
Things, Laws, and the Human Mind.................................................................. 75
Tejinder P. Singh
The Case for Strong Emergence.......................................................................... 85
Sabine Hossenfelder
Mad-Dog Everettianism: Quantum Mechanics
at Its Most Minimal.............................................................................................. 95
Sean M. Carroll and Ashmeet Singh
Bell’s Theory of Beables and the Concept of ‘Universe’................................... 105
Ian T. Durham
Fundamentally, Explanation, and the Unity of Science................................... 115
Gregory N. Derry
When Do We Stop Digging? Conditions on a Fundamental
Theory of Physics............................................................................................... 123
Karen Crowther
Fundamental is Non-random............................................................................. 135
Ken Wharton
Socrates, Atoms and Being: A Platonic Dialogue.............................................. 147
Mozibur Rahman Ullah
‘Fundamentality’ as a Linguistic Paradigm and Linguistics
as a Fundamental Paradigm.............................................................................. 169
Aditya Dwarkesh
Appendix: List of Winners................................................................................. 179
Titles in This Series............................................................................................. 181