John Heil
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John Heil

Symposium on his Ontological Point of View

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

John Heil

Symposium on his Ontological Point of View

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110324457
eBook ISBN
9783110324761
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Table of contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. IntroductionMichael Esfeld
  4. On being ontologically seriousJohn Heil
  5. Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitivenotion of truthmaking in Heilā€™s ontological picture1Simon Friederich & Giovanni Tuzet
  6. Levels of being being there?1Jens Harbecke
  7. Can Heilā€™s ontological conception accommodatecomplex properties?1Vera Hoffmann
  8. Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations1Christian Sachse
  9. Is a world only made up of relations possible? Astructural realist point of viewVincent Lam
  10. Powerful causationGeorg Sparber
  11. Is Heilā€™s theory a really determinate realism?Dispositionalist realism and identity theory1
  12. Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessnessFlavia Padovani
  13. From being ontologically serious to serious ontologyMichael Esfeld
  14. Representationalism and tactile ā€œvisionā€Michael Sollberger
  15. Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitiveMarc Aurel Hunziker
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Notes on contributors