Esfeld John Heil

Symposium on his Ontological Point of View
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032476-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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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)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esfeld, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;7
2;Acknowledgements;8
3;IntroductionMichael Esfeld;11
4;On being ontologically seriousJohn Heil;15
5;Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitivenotion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture1Simon Friederich & Giovanni Tuzet;28
6;Levels of being being there?1Jens Harbecke;46
7;Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodatecomplex properties?1Vera Hoffmann;75
8;Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations1Christian Sachse;91
9;Is a world only made up of relations possible? Astructural realist point of viewVincent Lam;110
10;Powerful causationGeorg Sparber;122
11;Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism?Dispositionalist realism and identity theory1;143
12;Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessnessFlavia Padovani;173
13;From being ontologically serious to serious ontologyMichael Esfeld;191
14;Representationalism and tactile “vision”Michael Sollberger;212
15;Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitiveMarc Aurel Hunziker;235
16;Bibliography;251
17;Index;263
18;Notes on contributors;272