John Heil : symposium on his ontological point of view / Michael Esfeld (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esfeld, Michael.

Series:

Metaphysical Research

Metaphysical research ; Bd. 6

Metaphysical Research ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology--Congresses.

Ontology.

Metaphysics--Congresses.

Metaphysics.

Heil, John. From an ontological point of view--Congresses.

Heil, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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 mov

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: On being ontologically serious / Heil, John

Chapter 2: Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heil's ontological picture / Friederich, Simon / Tuzet, Giovanni

Chapter 3: Levels of being being there? / Harbecke, Jens

Chapter 4: Can Heil's ontological conception accommodate complex properties? / Hoffmann, Vera

Chapter 5: Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations / Sachse, Christian

Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view / Lam, Vincent

Chapter 7: Powerful causation / Sparber, Georg

Chapter 8: Is Heil's theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory / Freland, Laurent

Chapter 9: Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness / Padovani, Flavia

Chapter 10: From being ontologically serious to serious ontology / Esfeld, Michael

Chapter 11: Representationalism and tactile "vision" / Sollberger, Michael

Chapter 12: Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive / Hunziker, Marc Aurel

Bibliography

Index

Notes on contributors

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110324778

3110324776

9783110324761

3110324768

OCLC:

851970816