Markus Gabriel is one of the leaders of the revival of interest in realism in contemporary European philosophy. In this volume, he develops his own ambitious, distinctive and provocative version of the view, one that is likely to spur much discussion.

- Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University,

Gabriel's project of a new realist ontology effortlessly bridges the gap between continental and analytic philosophy. Altogether an enviable achievement. The work is bound to provide a strong impetus to new ways of thinking about ontological questions.

- Professor Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley,

This bold meditation breaks a new path beyond both anti-realism and metaphysical realism. Gabriel discloses senses as real ways for the things to be. Thus, he overcomes the metaphysical distinction between mind and world and makes sense of the reality of thinking as well. A huge step forward for philosophy.

- Professor Jocelyn Benoist, Centre of Philosophy, Sorbonne University,

It is still a widespread assumption that metaphysics and ontology deal with roughly the same questions. They are supposed to be concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and to give an account of the meaning of ‘existence’ or ‘being’ in line with the broadest possible metaphysical assumptions. Against this, Markus Gabriel proposes a radical form of ontological pluralism that divorces ontology from metaphysics, understood as the most fundamental theory of absolutely everything (the world). He argues that the concept of existence is incompatible with the existence of the world and therefore proposes his innovative no-world-view. In the context of recent debates surrounding new realism and speculative realism, Gabriel also develops the outlines of a realist epistemological pluralism. His idea here is that there are different forms of knowledge that correspond to the plurality of fields of sense that must be acknowledged in order to avoid the trap of metaphysics.
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Markus Gabriel proposes a radical form of ontological pluralism that divorces ontology from metaphysics, understood as the most fundamental theory of absolutely everything (the world). He argues that the concept of existence is incompatible with the existence of the world and therefore proposes his innovative no-world-view.
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Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Introduction; Part I: Negative Ontology; 1. Zoontology; 2. Existence is not a proper property; 3. What is wrong with Kant and Frege?; 4. Limits of Set-Theoretical Ontology and Contemporary Nihilism; 5. Domains of Objects and Fields of Sense; 6. Fields and the Meaning of Existence; 7. The No World View; Part II: Positive Ontology; 8. Indefinitely Many Fields of Sense; 9. How Flat Can Ontology Be?; 10. Actuality and Possibility; 11. Modalities II: Necessity, Contingency, and Logical Time; 12. Forms of Knowledge: Epistemological Pluralism, 13. Senses as Ways Things Are in Themselves; Bibliography; Index.
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The first contribution to a speculative epistemology on the basis of an ontology-first method

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780748692897
Publisert
2015-01-14
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Vekt
610 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

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Biografisk notat

Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the author of many books and articles in German. His publications in English include Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), The Limits of Epistemology (Polity Press, 2019), Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism (Continuum, 2011) and co-author with Slavoj Žižek of Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (Continuum, 2009).