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Authored book

• Heil, J. Appearance in Reality. Oxford University Press
• Heil, J. (2019). Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction 4th ed. London: Routledge. (4th). Routlege
• Heil, J. (2012). The Universe As We Find It. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199596201.001.0001
• Heil, J. (2003). From an Ontological Point of View. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0199259747.001.0001

Chapter in book

• Heil, J. (2020). Ontology of Powers. In A. Meincke (Ed.), Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (13-26). Springer Verlag
• Heil, J. (2019). Category Mistakes. In J. Cumpa (Ed.), Categorical Ontologies: From Realism to Eliminativism. Routledge
• Heil, J. (2019). Emergence and panpsychism1. In S. Gibb, R. Findlay Hendry, & T. Lancaster (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emergence (225-234). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675213-19
• Heil, J. (2018). Introduction. In A. Carruth, S. Gibb, & J. Heil (Eds.), Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe (1-13). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796299.003.0001
• Heil, J. (2018). The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness. In M. P. Guta (Ed.), Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties. Routledge
• Heil, J. (2018). Objects, Ordinary and Otherwise. In The Nature of Ordinary Objects. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316612897.005
• Heil, J. (2018). ‘Must there be Brute Facts?’ In E. Vintiadis and C. Mekios, eds. Brute Facts. 19–27. In E. Vintiadis, & C. Mekios (Eds.), Brute Facts. Oxford University Press
• Heil, J. (2017). Downward causation. In M. P. Paoletti, & F. Orilia (Eds.), Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Downward Causation (42-53). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638577
• Heil, J. (2016). Causal Relations. In A. Marmadoro, & D. Yates (Eds.), The Metaphysics of Relations. Oxford University Press
• Heil, J. (2015). Universals in a world of particulars. In G. Galluzzo, & M. J. Loux (Eds.), The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy (114-132). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316181539.006
• Heil, J. (2014). Contingency. In T. Goldschmidt (Ed.), The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (167-181). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203104323
• Heil, J. (2014). Cartesian Transubstantiation. In J. Kvanvig (Ed.), Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion (139-157). Oxford University Press
• Heil, J. (2013). Modes and mind. In S. Gozzano, & F. Orilia (Eds.), Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind (13-30). De Gruyter Mouton
• Heil, J. (2011). Are four categories two too many?. In T. E. Tahko (Ed.), Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (105-125). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511732256.009
• Heil, J. (2011). Natural intentionality. In R. Schantz (Ed.), The Externalist Challenge (287-296). De Gruyter Mouton
• Hare, P., Heil, J., & Steup, M. (2010). J. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition (469-471). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444315080.ch10
• Heil, J. (2010). Mental Causation and Epiphenomenalism. In T. O'Connor, & C. Sandis (Eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (174-181). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444323528.ch23
• Heil, J. (2010). Powerful qualities. In A. Marmodoro (Ed.), The Metaphysics of Powers: Their Grounding and their Manifestations (58-72). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851289
• Rogers, G., Erwin, E., Heil, J., Addis, L., Ayers, M., Williams, M., Chisholm, R., & Walton, D. (2010). B. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition (153-266). (2nd). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444315080.ch2
• Lepqre, E., Williams, M., Hunter, B., Tragesser, R., Wheeler, S., Cqttingham, J., Hare, P., Westphal, K., White, N., Hintikka, J., Carrier, L., Heil, J., & Ryan, S. (2010). D. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition (300-325). (2nd). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444315080.ch4
• Heil, J. (2009). M: Martin, Charles Burton. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (393-395). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch14
• Heil, J. (2009). Language and Thought. In A. Beckermann, B. P. McLaughlin, & S. Walter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199262618.003.0037
• Heil, J. (2009). Mind and Knowledge. In P. K. Moser (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195301700.003.0011
• Heil, J. (2009). Extended Essays: The Mind/Body Problem. In J. Kim, E. Sosa, & G. S. Rosenkrantz (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (36-45). (2nd). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch1
• Heil, J. (2009). S: Sensa. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology, Second Edition (559-560). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch20
• Heil, J. (2009). E: Experience. In J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition (253-254). (2nd). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308525.ch6
• Heil, J. (2008). Anomalous monism. In H. Dyke (Ed.), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics (85-98). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203869093
• Heil, J. (2007). Hilary Putnam (1926-). In A. Martinich, & D. Sosa (Eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (393-412). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470998656.ch33
• Heil, J. (2004). Natural Intentionality. In R. Schantz (Ed.), The Externalist Challenge (287-296). Walter de Gruyter GmbH and Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915273

Journal Article

• Heil, J. ‘Relations and Relational Truths’, in François Clementz and Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, eds. The Metaphysics of Relations (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2015): 310–21
• Heil, J. (1970). Sensations, experiences and brain processes. Philosophy, 45(173), 221-226. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100063117
• Heil, J. ‘Existents and Universals’. In A. D. Carruth., S. C. Gibb, and J. Heil, eds. Ontology, Modality, and Mind: Themes from the Metaphysics of E. J. Lowe. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 48–59
• Heil, J. ‘Real Modalities’. In J. Jacobs, ed. Causal Powers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017): 90–104. Reprinted as ‘Modalidades Reales’, in E. Zerbudis, ed., Poderes Caussales, Tropos y Otras Criaturas Extrañas: Ensayos de Metafísica Analítica (Buenos Aires: Título, 2017): 121–44
• Heil, J. ‘Dispositionality and Mentality’. In F. Teroni and H. Naar, eds. The Ontology of Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 37–50
• Heil, J. (2021). Hylomorphism: what’s not to like?. Synthese, 198(Suppl 11), 2657–2670. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1792-x
• Heil, J. (2021). Truthmaking and fundamentality. Synthese, 198(Suppl 3), 849–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1292-9
• Heil, J. (2018). Being of one substance. Religious Studies, 54(3), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412518000185
• Heil, J. (2018). Substances. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26(5), 645-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1542276
• Heil, J. (2018). Accidents unmoored. American Philosophical Quarterly, 55(2), 113-120
• Heil, J. (2017). Real Agency. The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 24, 9-22. https://doi.org/10.5840/harvardreview201761210
• Heil, J. (2015). III - Aristotelian supervenience. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2015.00383.x
• Heil, J. (2014). Accidents, modes, tropes, and universals. American Philosophical Quarterly, 51(4), 333-344
• Heil, J. (2008). Peter Unger, all the power in the world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Xxix +640pp.). Noûs, 42(2), 336-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2008.00683.x
• Heil, J. (2006). The legacy of linguisticism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84(2), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400600759043
• Heil, J. (2005). Dispositions. Synthese, 144(3), 343-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-5864-3
• Heil, J. (2005). Real tables. The Monist, 88(4), 493-509. https://doi.org/10.5840/monist200588430
• Heil, J. (2005). Kinds and essences. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, 18(4), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2005.00302.x
• Heil, J., & Robb, D. (2003). Mental properties. American Philosophical Quarterly, 40(3), 175-196
• Heil, J. (2003). Levels of reality. Ratio: An international journal of analytic philosophy, 16(3), 205-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9329.00218
• Heil, J. (2001). What are we talking about here?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(4), 671-672
• Martin, C., & Heil, J. (1999). The ontological turn. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 23(1), 34-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4975.00003
• Heil, J. (1998). Supervenience deconstructed. European Journal of Philosophy, 6(2), 146-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0378.00055
• Martin, C., & Heil, J. (1998). Rules and powers. Noûs, 32(SUPPL. 12), 283-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/0029-4624.32.s12.13
• Heil, J. (1995). Reduction, illumination, and elimination: A response to Robinson. New Ideas in Psychology, 13(1), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/0732-118x%2894%29e0033-x
• Heil, J. (1994). Truth or consequences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17(1), 19-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00033136
• Heil, J. (1992). Mentality and causality. Topoi, 11(1), 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00768302
• Heil, J. (1991). On the cutting edge: Philosophical perspectives on mental causation. Philosophical Papers, 20(2), 113-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568649109506357
• Heil, J. (1989). Minds divided. Mind, 98(392), 571-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/xcviii.392.571
• Heil, J. (1988). The Epistemic Route To Anti-Realism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 66(2), 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048408812343261
• Heil, J. (1988). Privileged access. Mind, 97(386), 238-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/xcvii.386.238
• Heil, J. (1988). Talk and thought. Philosophical Papers, 17(3), 153-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568648809506297
• Heil, J. (1987). The Molyneux Question. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 17(3), 227-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1987.tb00097.x
• Heil, J. (1987). Doubts about skepticism. Philosophical Studies, 51(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00353959
• Heil, J. (1987). Are We Brains in a Vat? Top Philosopher Says ‘No’. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17(2), 427-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1987.10716445
• Heil, J. (1986). Does Psychology Presuppose Rationality?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 16(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1986.tb00067.x
• Heil, J. (1985). Rationality and Psychological Explanation. https://doi.org/10.1080/00201748508602057
• Heil, J. (1984). Reliability and epistemic merit. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 62(4), 327-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048408412341551
• Heil, J. (1984). Doxastic incontinence. Mind, 93(369), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/xciii.369.56
• Heil, J. (1983). Doxastic agency. Philosophical Studies, 43(3), 355-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00372372
• Shapiro, D., Heil, J., & Hager, F. (1983). Validation of the johari window test as a measure of self-disclosure. The Journal of Social Psychology, 120(2), 289-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1983.9713227
• Heil, J. (1982). Foundationalism and epistemic rationality. Philosophical Studies, 42(2), 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00374032
• Heil, J. (1981). Gibsonian Sins of Omission. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 11(3), 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1981.tb00039.x
• Heil, J. (1981). On Saying What There Is. Philosophy, 56(216), 242-247. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100050087
• Heil, J. (1979). What Gibson's Missing. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 9(3), 265-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5914.1979.tb00429.x
• Heil, J. (1979). Action and Desire. Philosophical Investigations, 2(3), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.1979.tb00394.x

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Heil, J. ‘Metaphysics of Mind’. In A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, (http://host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/mm.htm)
• Heil, J. Richard Marshall’s 3:AM Magazine interview with John Heil on The Universe as We Find It http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-universe-as-we-find-it/
• Heil, J. ‘Mental Causation’ (with David Robb). In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003. (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-causation/). Substantially revised versions appeared in 2008 and 2012, and 2018
• Heil, J. Tony Sobrado’s Biggest Questions interview with John Heil on ‘What is Consciousness?’ http://tonysobrado.org/index.php/the-biggest-questions-podcast-series/what-is-consciousness/interview-discussion-with-professor-john-heil/
• Heil, J. ‘What’s It Like to See What It’s Like?’, Institute of Art and Ideas News https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/the-secrets-of-experience-auid-850
• Heil, J. Institute of Art and Ideas, three lectures on The Universe as We Find It https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/info?course=the-universe-as-we-find-it
• Heil, J. ‘Précis of From an Ontological Point of View’ together with responses to five discussants. SWIF (Sito Web Italiano per la Filosofia) Philosophy of Mind Review (http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/mind/swifpmr/0620072.pdf)