Metametaphysics New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

Name: Metametaphysics New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
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ISBN: 9780199546008

ISBN-10: 0199546002

ISBN-13: 9780199546008

Edition: 2009

Authors: David Chalmers, David Manley, Ryan Wasserman

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Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate…

Book details

Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.13" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of Contributors



Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics




Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology




Ontological Anti-Realism




Carnap and Ontological Pluralism




The Question of Ontology




The Metaontology of Abstraction




Superficialism in Ontology




Ontology and Alternative Languages




Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics




Ways of Being




Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?




On What Grounds What




Ontological Realism




Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: the Quine-Carnap Dispute




Answerable and Unanswerable Questions




Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment




Must Existence-Questions have Answers?



Index