Everyday Metaphysical Explanation

Kristie Miller is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. She has previously been a DECRA ARC Fellow, as well as an ARC Senior Research Fellow. She is joint director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Time. She has published widely in metaphysics, particularly on the nature of time, temporal phenomenology, personal identity, and persistence.James Norton is a postdoctoral fellow with the project Understanding Progress, in Science and Beyond at the University of Iceland, and a research affiliate of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney. His research is primarily on the philosophy of time, experimental philosophy, metaphysical explanation, and metaphilosophical issues concerning philosophical progress.

• Introduction 1: Metaphysical Explanation 2: Desiderata for an Account of Everyday Metaphysical Explanation 3: Empirical Evidence about Judgements about Causal and Metaphysical Explanation 4: Grounding-based Accounts of Everyday Metaphysical Explanation 5: Three Accounts of R-facts 6: Psychological Role P 7: Tracking R-facts 8: Tracking Subjective Understanding 9: Evaluating the Three Accounts Part I 10: Evaluating the Three Accounts Part II References