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| - 'It was a pleasure to read, exciting, persuasive, and dismaying by turns as I found cherished positions challenged and sometimes upstaged by more attractive and economical options ... a very rich book, full of new and interesting ideas, and of old ideas made interesting in new ways.' - James G. Murphy, Milltown Studies
- 'Heils book is masterful, wide-ranging, and instructive. It is also tightly argued, insightful, and provocative. The book is written in an admirably clear analytic style and is extremely well organized (each of the twenty concise chapters is subdivided into short numbered sections). . . . I strongly recommend this book to anyone with a serious interest in ontology or the philosophy of mind.' - Gary Rosenkrantz, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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| Description | | - Defends a highly original account of issues in fundamental ontology
- Important implications for metaphysics and the study of consciousness
- Very clearly written and low in jargon
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Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural properties best regarded as qualities or powers or some combination of these? What are colours? What explains the 'projective' character of
intentionality? What is the nature of consciousness, and what relation do conscious experiences bear to material states and processes?
From an Ontological Point of View
endeavours to provide answers to such questions through an examination of ground-floor issues in ontology. The result is an account of the fundamental constituents of the world around us and an application of this account to
problems dominating recent work in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
The book, written in an accessible, non-technical style, is intended for non-specialists as well as seasoned metaphysicians.
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Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy, particularly of metaphysics and philosophy of mind.
| Contents |
Preface
1.
Introduction
ONTOLOGY
2.
Levels of Reality
3.
Predicates and Properties
4.
Difficulties for the Levels Conception
5.
Abandoning Levels
6.
Philosophical Analysis
7.
Truth Making
8.
Powers
9.
Dispositional and Categorical Properties
10.
Properties as Pure Powers
11.
The Identity Theory
12.
Universals
13.
Modes
14.
Imperfect Similarity
15.
Objects
16.
Substantial Identity
APPLICATIONS
17.
Colour
18.
Intentionality
19.
Conscious Experience
20.
Zombies
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John Heil, Washington University in Saint Louis and Monash University in Australia
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