Published in cooperation with the renowned physics "think-tank" Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi

Presents specially reworked versions of the prize-winning essays from among more than 150 submissions

Contributors include top scientists, philosophers and thought leaders

Introduction.- Fundamental? (Emily Adlam).- Against Fundamentalism (Matthew Leifer).- The Politics of Fundamentality (Alyssa Ney).- Of Lego and Layers (and Fundamentalism) (Dean Rickles).- Fundamentality Here, Fundamentality There, Fundamentality Everywhere (Marc Séguin).- Mind before matter: reversing the arrow of fundamentality (Markus Müller).- Things, Laws, and the Human Mind (Tejinder Singh).- The Case for Strong Emergence (Sabine Hossenfelder).- Mad-Dog Everettianism: Quantum Mechanics at Its Most Minimal (Sean Carroll, Ashmeet Singh).- Bell's Theory of Beables and the Concept of 'Universe' (Ian Durham).- Fundamentality, Explanation, and the Unity of Science (Gregory Derry).- When do we stop digging? Conditions on a fundamental theory of physics (Karen Crowther).- Fundamental is Non-Random (Ken Wharton).- Socrates, Atoms, and Beig: A Dialogue (Mozibur Ullah).Fundamentality' as a Linguistic Paradigm (and Linguistics as a Fundamental Paradigm) (Aditya Dwarkesh).