Markus Gabriel's New Realism

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriel's version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy. Most of the selected contributions are directly or indirectly concerned with Gabriel's fields of sense-ontology, his version of a thoroughly realistic pluralism. While some take up criticisms from previous debates surrounding Gabriel's philosophy and New Realism in general, others advance completely new and innovative challenges for this highly systematic thinker. Overall, the contributions provide both a substantive commentary on Gabriel's work and a multifaceted, critical assessment of its underlying ideas. The book is not only an essential addition to the debate surrounding New Realism, but also furthers the discussions about naturalism, deflationist ontologies, contextualism and mereological arguments to which Gabriel's work has contributed in recent years.

The first book to date to cover Markus Gabriel's New Realism The only collection on the work of one of the founders of New Realism Brings together highly regarded philosophers from all traditions to engage in issues of metaphysics/ontology

Auteur

Jan Voosholz is a tenured research associate at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. His research focuses on questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of science. In his PhD project, he investigated the consequences of Quentin Meillassoux's speculative realism and Markus Gabriel's new realism for the philosophy of science in general and the debate concerning realism and antirealism in particular. He is the editor of Top-Down Causation and Emergence (with Markus Gabriel; Synthese Library 439, Springer, 2021). He has spent time as a guest researcher at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, and previously received a M.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in history from the Free University Berlin.

Contenu

1. Introduction (Jan Voosholz).- Part I. Fields of Sense Ontology and the Case against Metaphysics. 2. The Meaning of Existence (Charles Travis).- 3. A white horse is not a horse: Markus Gabriel's new realism (Jody Azzouni).- 4. Absolute Dialetheism (Gregory S. Moss).- 5. 'No World' Is Not Enough: Markus Gabriel and the Possibility of Metaphysics (Nicholas Stang).- Part II. Fields of Sense Ontology in the Field of New and Speculative Realism. 6. Set-Theoretic Ontology and Fields of Sense: Limits and Interpretations (Otávio Bueno).- 7. I Can't See the Sense in this (Jocelyn Benoist).- 8. The Concept of Nature and the Universe in Markus Gabriel's New Realism (Jan Voosholz).- 9. Objects and Fields of Sense: Reflections on Markus Gabriel's Ontology (Graham Harman).- Part III. Gabriel's Epistemology and Neo-Existentialism. 10. Diaphaneity and the Ways Things Appear (Umrao Sethi).- 11. The Intersubjective Perceptual Field as the Privileged Field of Sense (Anton Friedrich Koch).- 12. Mediation, Negativity, and second Potency in Gabriel's Neo-Existentialism (María Jose Binetti).- 13. Existentialism as Anti-Rationalism (Taylor Carman).- Part IV. Compare, Contrast and Conversation. 14. A Critique of the Poststructuralist Subjectivity-Centered Epistemo-Ontology: A Triangular Glance Combining Marx, Laruelle and Irigaray in Dialog with Gabriel (Katerina Kolozova).- 15. Relating the Real: Markus Gabriel's Fields of Sense Ontology and Edouard Glissant's Theory of Tout-monde (Monika Kaup).- 16. Webfare: How producing new value will make humanity flourish (Maurizio Ferraris).- Part V. Responses. 17. Responses (Markus Gabriel).