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Knowing how things might have been (2018)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2021). Knowing how things might have been. Synthese, 198(S8), 1981–1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1869-6

I know that I could have been where you are right now and that you could have been where I am right now, but that neither of us could have been turnips or natural numbers. This knowledge of metaphysical modality stands in need of explanation. I will... Read More about Knowing how things might have been.

From nature to grounding (2018)
Book Chapter
Jago, M. (2018). From nature to grounding. In R. Bliss, & G. Priest (Eds.), Reality and its structure: essays in fundamentality. Oxford University Press

Grounding is a powerful metaphysical concept; yet there is widespread scepticism about the intelligibility of the notion. In this paper, I propose an account of an entity’s nature or essence, which I then use to provide grounding conditions for that... Read More about From nature to grounding.

Essential bundle theory and modality (2018)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2021). Essential bundle theory and modality. Synthese, 198(4), 1439–1454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1819-3

Bundle theories identify material objects with bundles of properties. On the traditional approach, these are the properties possessed by that material object. That view faces a deep problem: it seems to say that all of an object’s properties are esse... Read More about Essential bundle theory and modality.

What Truth Is (2018)
Book
Jago, M. (2018). What Truth Is. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823810.001.0001

© Mark Jago 2018. What Truth Is presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. This is the relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the world, in virtue of which that truth is... Read More about What Truth Is.