John Heil: Symposium on his Ontological Point of View

Published by De Gruyter 2006

John Heil

Symposium on his Ontological Point of View

Edited by: Michael Esfeld

Volume 6 in the series Metaphysical Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110324761

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Fifty years after Willard Van Orman Quine published From a logical point of view (1953), John Heil brought out his book 'From an ontological point of view' (2003). The title expresses the shift in contemporary philosophy from logical and epistemological concerns to metaphysics. The papers of this symposium discuss that shift, focussing on what John Heil calls 'ontological seriousness', truth-making, levels of being, properties, powers, and reductionism. Each paper is followed by a comment from John Heil. The volume covers a number of the most hotly debated issues in today’s metaphysics and moves the discussion on in several important aspects. 'It would be difficult to imagine a collection of more astute, penetrating, and philosophically hard-hitting discussions of the kind of metaphysical realism articulated in 'From an Ontological Point of View'. Symposium participants deploy an impressive range of analytical skills in a way that illuminates connections among metaphysical positions that too often escape notice.' (John Heil)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 1: On being ontologically serious John Heil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2: Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture Simon Friederich and Giovanni Tuzet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3: Levels of being being there? Jens Harbecke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Chapter 4: Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodate complex properties? Vera Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 5: Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations Christian Sachse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view Vincent Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 7: Powerful causation Georg Sparber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8: Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory Laurent Freland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 9: Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness Flavia Padovani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 10: From being ontologically serious to serious ontology Michael Esfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 11: Representationalism and tactile “vision” Michael Sollberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 12: Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive Marc Aurel Hunziker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Notes on contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 275
Keywords: Metaphysik; Ontologie; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110324761

Hardcover

Published: August 15, 2006
ISBN: 9783110324457