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Cover -- The Foundation Of Reality: Fundamentality, Space, And Time -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Contributors -- Introduction -- I.1 Concepts Of Fundamentality And Emergence -- I.1.1 Fundamentality And Emergence In Metaphysics -- I.1.2 Fundamentality And Emergence In The Philosophy Of Physics -- I.2 Substantivalism And Relationalism -- I.3 Quantum Theory And Spacetime Non-fundamentality -- I.3.1 Wavefunction Realism -- I.3.2 Super-humeanism -- I.4 Quantum Gravity And Emergent Spacetime -- I.4.1 Some Approaches To Quantum Gravity I.1.2 Problems Of Emergent Spacetime -- Acknowledgement -- Section 1: The Metaphysics Of Fundamentality -- 1: Fundamentality And Non-symmetric Relations -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Converse Relations -- 1.2.1 Relational Properties -- 1.2.2 Converses: Strict And Loose -- 1.3 Fundamental Symmetric Relations -- 1.3.1 Fundamental Theorising -- 1.4 Derivative Non-symmetric Relations -- 1.4.1 Asymmetric Structures -- 1.4.2 Internal Relations -- 1.4.3 Absolutism V. Comparativism -- 1.5 Identity Criteria For Derivative Relations -- 1.5.1 Individuating Fundamental Relations 1.5.2 Relational Expressions And Conventions -- 1.5.3 Reflecting Differences V. Inducing Order -- 1.5.4 Symmetric Instantiations -- 1.5.5 Cross-relation Comparisons -- 1.6 Generative Operations -- 1.6.1 Causation As A Generative Operation -- 1.6.2 Grounding As A Generative Operation -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2: Classifying Dependencies -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Causation And Grounding -- 2.3 Against The Distinctness Criterion -- 2.4 Against The Fundamentality Criterion -- 2.5 Against The Categorial Criterion -- 2.6 Against The Temporal Criterion -- 2.7 Against The Intervention Criterion 2.8 Against The Modal Criterion -- 2.9 A Mediation Demarcation Criterion -- 2.10 Implications For Simultaneous Causation -- 2.11 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 3: Ontic Structuralism And Fundamentality -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Grounding, Ontological Dependence, Etc. -- 3.3