This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriels 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 Gabriels fields of sense-ontology, his version of a thoroughly realistic pluralism. While some take up criticisms from previous debates surrounding Gabriels 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 Gabriels 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 Gabriels work has contributed in recent years.
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 Gabriels 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 (Otįvio Bueno).-
7. I Cant See the Sense in this (Jocelyn
Benoist).-
8. The Concept of Nature and the Universe in Markus Gabriels New
Realism (Jan Voosholz).-
9. Objects and Fields of Sense: Reflections on
Markus Gabriels Ontology (Graham Harman).- Part III. Gabriels 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 Gabriels Neo-Existentialism (Marķa 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
Gabriels Fields of Sense Ontology and Edouard Glissants 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).
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.