Abstract This paper explores a middle way between realism and eliminativism about grounding. Grounding-talk is intelligible useful, but it fails to pick out grounding relations that exist or obtain in reality. Instead, grounding-talk allows us convey facts what metaphysically explains what, the worldly dependence give rise those explanations.

This article tackles categorical coherence within a two-dimensional generalization of Lawvere’s functorial semantics. 2-theories, a syntactical way of describing categories with structure, are presented. From the perspective here afforded, many coherence results become simple statements about the quasi-Yoneda lemma and 2-theory-morphisms. Given two 2-theories and a 2-theory-morphism between the...

Recently, Andrews and Berkovich introduced a trinomial version of Bailey’s lemma. In this note we show that each ordinary Bailey pair gives rise to a trinomial Bailey pair. This largely widens the applicability of the trinomial Bailey lemma and proves some of the identities proposed by Andrews and Berkovich. The trinomial Bailey lemma In a recent paper, Andrews and Berkovich (AB) proposed a tri...

The next two chapters are about social history. The basic argument is that if Darwin was right about natural history (and he was) then Marx was right about social history. They both use the same explanatory framework. Each theory is an analogue of the other. Chapter 10 is about how we can use an evolutionary framework to understand social and cultural changes. And chapter 11 is about the implic...

Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt Northeastern University I. Legal Distinctions II. Hate Crimes and Prejudice III. Why Treat Hate Crimes Differently? IV. Problems in Collecting Hate Crime Data V. Types of Hate Crimes VI. Organized Hate Groups VII. Are Hate Crimes on the Rise? VIII. Responses to Hate crimes IX. Conclusion GLOSSARY Defensive Hate Crimes Hate offenses aimed against particular “outsider...