John Heil : symposium on his ontological point of view
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John Heil : symposium on his ontological point of view
（Metaphysical research, Bd.6）
Ontos, 2006
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International conference proceedings
Bibliographical references: p.[251]-261
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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
- Introduction
- On being ontologically serious
- Inflating truthmakers: A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heils ontological picture
- Can Heils ontological conception accommodate complex properties?
- Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations
- Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view
- Powerful causation
- Is Heils theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory
- Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness
- Representationalism and tactile vision
- Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive
- Bibliography
- Index.
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