John Heil Symposium on his Ontological Point of View
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Michael Esfeld
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John Heil Symposium on his Ontological Point of View
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110324761
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Metaphysical ResearchISSN
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1
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CHF 48.80
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20. und 21. Jahrhundert
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English
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275
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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)
Table of contents
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Acknowledgements
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IntroductionMichael Esfeld
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On being ontologically seriousJohn Heil
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Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitivenotion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture1Simon Friederich
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Levels of being being there?1Jens Harbecke
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Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodatecomplex properties?1Vera Hoffmann
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Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations1Christian Sachse
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Is a world only made up of relations possible? Astructural realist point of viewVincent Lam
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Powerful causationGeorg Sparber
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Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism?Dispositionalist realism and identity theory1
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Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessnessFlavia Padovani
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From being ontologically serious to serious ontologyMichael Esfeld
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Representationalism and tactile “vision”Michael Sollberger
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Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitiveMarc Aurel Hunziker
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Bibliography
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Index
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Notes on contributors
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