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Ontology of Powers. (2020)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2020). Ontology of Powers. In A. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (13-26). Springer Verlag

Category Mistakes. (2019)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2019). Category Mistakes. In J. Cumpa (Ed.), Categorical Ontologies: From Realism to Eliminativism. Routledge

Accidents unmoored (2018)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2018). Accidents unmoored. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(2), 113-120

Substances. (2018)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2018). Substances. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(5), 645-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1542276

The paper takes up a conception of substances according to which substances are simple property bearers, properties being modes, particular qualitative ways individual substances are. What a substance does or would do is determined by its qualities.... Read More about Substances..

Hylomorphism: what’s not to like? (2018)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2021). Hylomorphism: what’s not to like?. Synthese, 198(Suppl 11), 2657–2670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1792-x

The paper comprises an attempt on the part of the author to understand what hylomorphism is, both in its original Aristotelian guise, and in recent work by philosophers who defend what they call hylomorphism. Two species or strands of hylomorphism ar... Read More about Hylomorphism: what’s not to like?.

Real Agency (2017)
Journal Article
Heil, J. (2017). Real Agency. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 24, 9-22. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview201761210

Peter van Inwagen’s Consequence Argument makes salient the difficulties facing attempts to reconcile determinism and agency. Others go further. Derk Pereboom, for instance, contends that science provides compelling evidence that no action is free, an... Read More about Real Agency.

Causal Relations (2016)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2016). Causal Relations. In A. Marmadoro, & D. Yates (Eds.), The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford University Press

Cartesian Transubstantiation. (2014)
Book Chapter
Heil, J. (2014). Cartesian Transubstantiation. In J. Kvanvig (Ed.), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (139-157). Oxford University Press