Appearance in reality
by Heil, John
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.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2021
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
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11.4 Whither Humeanism.
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- Description:1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780192634801, 0192634801
- oclc:on1267763115
- LC Classification:B105.A66
- Dewey Decimal:177.4
Table of 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
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
4.3 Thinking Comprehe…
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