Appearance in reality / John Heil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heil, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality.

Perception (Philosophy).

Appearance (Philosophy).

Metaphysics.

Physics--Philosophy.

Physics.

Cosmology--Philosophy.

Cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

How does the way things appear to us relate to the way things really are? Science tells us that the world is very different from the way we experience it. John Heil offers an explanation of why the scientific image of the world that we get from physics is our best guide to the nature of reality--to what the appearances are appearances of.

Contents:

Cover

Appearance in Reality

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

1: Metaphysics

1.0 What Is Metaphysics?

1.1 The Inevitability of Metaphysics

1.2 The Manifest and Scientific Images

1.3 Reality as Hierarchical

1.4 The Three Options

1.5 A Package Deal

1.6 Truthmaking

1.7 Aristotelianism and Humeanism

1.8 What You Can Expect

2: Ontological Categories

2.0 Analytic Ontology

2.1 Truthmaking and Foundedness

2.2 Other Categories

2.3 Spatial, Temporal, and Causal Relations

2.4 Universals

2.5 Attributes

2.6 Abstracta

2.7 Modality

2.8 Inconclusive Reasons

3: Substance and Property

3.0 Ontology and Cosmology

3.1 Ordinary Objects

3.2 Propertied Substances

3.3 The Priority of Substance

3.4 Substantial and Non-Substantial Parts

3.5 Substantial Simplicity

3.6 Substances as Property Bearers

3.7 Complex Objects

3.8 Vagueness

3.9 Coinciding Objects

3.10 Properties and Powers

3.11 Properties of Complex Objects

3.12 Objects as Modes

4: Essences, Kinds, Universals

4.0 Old Dog, New Trick

4.1 A Corpuscular Universe

4.2 The Essential Lowe

4.3 Thinking Comprehendingly

4.4 It Is Never Easy

4.5 Essences and Universals

4.6 Slippage

4.7 Layers of Confusion

4.8 From Many to One

4.9 Engaging with the Universe

4.10 Dénouement

5: Qualities and Powers

5.0 Qualities

5.1 From Language to Ontology

5.2 Powerful Substances

5.3 Powers as Relations

5.4 Real Powers

5.5 Powers as 'Higher-Order' Properties

5.6 Empowering Qualities

6: Qualities Unbound

6.0 Autobiographical Interlude

6.1 The Puzzle

6.2 Making a Hard Problem Impossible

6.3 Primary and Secondary Qualities

6.4 Qualities and Powers

6.5 Experiential Qualities

6.6 Bodily Sensations.

6.7 Undergoing vs Observing an Undergoing

6.8 The View from Somewhere

7: Causation

7.0 Prologue

7.1 Causal Production

7.2 Causation and Laws

7.3 External Relations, Auf Wiedersehen

7.4 A Power-Imbued Universe

7.5 Necessity and Contingency

7.6 Historical Interlude

7.7 Laws, Powers, Causation

7.8 Absent Causes

8: Emergence and Downward Causation

8.0 Wholes

8.1 Species of Downward Causation

8.2 Emergence

8.3 Properties

8.4 Wholes without Parts

8.5 Campbell's Panpsychism

8.6 Efficient Causation

8.7 Real Emergence

9: Hylomorphism

9.0 Learning from Our Betters

9.1 Hylomorphisms

9.2 Aristotle

9.3 Matter

9.4 Form

9.5 The Blancmange Universe

10: The Art of the Possible

10.0 Modal Truths

10.1 Alternative Universes

10.2 Humean Supervenience

10.3 Modal Realism

10.4 Contingency

10.5 Aristotelian Modal Realism

10.6 Aristotelian Modal Discourse

11: Brute Fact

11.0 What Would Make a Fact Brute?

11.1 From Facts to Ways

11.2 From Laws to Powers

11.3 Reality's Constraints

11.4 Whither Humeanism

12: Roots of Things

12.0 Stirring the Pot

12.1 Layered Ontologies

12.2 Speculative Cosmology

12.3 Speculative Speculative Cosmology

12.4 Change and Its Basis

12.5 Efficient Causation

13: Reconciliation

13.0 Quantum Ontology

13.1 'Where's the Beef?'

13.2 Priority Monism

13.3 Hume, Spinoza, and Quantum Physics

13.4 Unifying the Manifest and Scientific Images

13.5 Appearance in Reality

13.6 Coda

14: Agency

14.0 The Antinomy of Agency

14.1 The Necessitarian Foil

14.2 Making Room for Agency

14.3 The Shadow of Physics

14.4 The Levels Option

14.5 Three Approaches to Agency

14.6 Trees, Baseballs, and Agents

14.7 Seeds of Agency

14.8 Compatibilism?

Epilogue

The Point of It All.

Appearance and Reality

Go Well

References

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-248) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-19-263481-X

0-19-189781-7

0-19-263480-1

OCLC:

1267763115