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John Heil : Symposium on his Ontological Point of View / ed. by Michael Esfeld.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Metaphysical Research ; 6Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110324457
  • 9783110324761
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111
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  • BD311 .J645 2006
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: On being ontologically serious -- Chapter 2: Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture -- Chapter 3: Levels of being being there? -- Chapter 4: Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodate complex properties? -- Chapter 5: Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations -- Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view -- Chapter 7: Powerful causation -- Chapter 8: Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory -- Chapter 9: Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness -- Chapter 10: From being ontologically serious to serious ontology -- Chapter 11: Representationalism and tactile “vision” -- Chapter 12: Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive -- Bibliography -- Index -- Notes on contributors -- Backmatter
Summary: 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 -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: On being ontologically serious -- Chapter 2: Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture -- Chapter 3: Levels of being being there? -- Chapter 4: Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodate complex properties? -- Chapter 5: Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations -- Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view -- Chapter 7: Powerful causation -- Chapter 8: Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory -- Chapter 9: Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness -- Chapter 10: From being ontologically serious to serious ontology -- Chapter 11: Representationalism and tactile “vision” -- Chapter 12: Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive -- Bibliography -- Index -- Notes on contributors -- Backmatter

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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)

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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