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John Heil : symposium on his ontological point of view /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Esfeld, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, ©2006.
Colección:Metaphysical research ; Bd. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of contents; Acknowledgements; IntroductionMichael Esfeld; On being ontologically seriousJohn Heil; Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitivenotion of truthmaking in Heil's ontological picture1Simon Friederich & Giovanni Tuzet; Levels of being being there?1Jens Harbecke; Can Heil's ontological conception accommodatecomplex properties?1Vera Hoffmann; Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations1Christian Sachse; Is a world only made up of relations possible? Astructural realist point of viewVincent Lam; Powerful causationGeorg Sparber
  • Is Heil's theory a really determinate realism?Dispositionalist realism and identity theory1Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessnessFlavia Padovani; From being ontologically serious to serious ontologyMichael Esfeld; Representationalism and tactile "vision"Michael Sollberger; Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitiveMarc Aurel Hunziker; Bibliography; Index; Notes on contributors