Browsing by Author "Trogdon, Kelly"

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    Complete Artworks Without Authors
    Trogdon, Kelly (Cambridge University Press, 2024-05)
    Genetically complete yet authorless artworks seem possible, yet it is hard to understand how they might really be possible. A natural way to try to resolve this puzzle is by constructing an account of artwork completion on the model of accounts of artwork meaning that are compatible with meaningful yet authorless artworks. However, I argue that such an account of artwork completion is implausible. Therefore, I leave the puzzle unresolved.
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    Incompletable Grounding and Ontological Economy
    Trogdon, Kelly (2025)
    Roughly speaking, incompletable grounds are partial grounds that do not, together with other partial grounds, fully ground. I first bolster the overall case for incompletable grounding by arguing that a certain totality fact has incompletable grounds. Then I trace out some interesting consequences for the ontological economy of theories, including those according to which the totality fact obtains.