Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Chapter 1: On being ontologically serious 15
6. Chapter 2: Inflating truthmakers. A critique of the primitive notion of truthmaking in Heil’s ontological picture 29
7. Chapter 3: Levels of being being there? 47
8. Chapter 4: Can Heil’s ontological conception accommodate complex properties? 75
9. Chapter 5: Inter-theoretic deduction of explanations 91
10. Chapter 6: Is a world only made up of relations possible? A structural realist point of view 111
11. Chapter 7: Powerful causation 123
12. Chapter 8: Is Heil’s theory a really determinate realism? Dispositionalist realism and identity theory 143
13. Chapter 9: Laws of nature, modal realism and realist lawlessness 173
14. Chapter 10: From being ontologically serious to serious ontology 191
15. Chapter 11: Representationalism and tactile “vision” 213
16. Chapter 12: Intentionality is not only a mark of the cognitive 235
17. Bibliography 251
18. Index 263
19. Notes on contributors 273
20. Backmatter 276