| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
11.4 Whither Humeanism |
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Appearance (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Reality.
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Physics -- Philosophy.
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perception.
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Appearance (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Physics -- Philosophy
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Reality
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Appearance (Philosophy)
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Perception (Philosophy)
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Reality
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Physics -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192634801 |
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0192634801 |
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