Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions 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 with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.
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Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions 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 with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.
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Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

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Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions 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 with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

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ISBN-13: 9780191567681
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 02/19/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 792 KB

About the Author

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but is also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, in philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, and in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics. David Manley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His papers in metaphysics and epistemology have appeared in such journals as Mind, The Journal of Philosophy, Noûs, and The Philosophical Quarterly. Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

1 Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics David Manley 1

2 Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology Karen Bennett 38

3 Ontological Anti-Realism David J. Chalmers 77

4 Carnap and Ontological Pluralism Matti Eklund 130

5 The Question of Ontology Kit Fine 157

6 The Metaontology of Abstraction Bob Hale Crispin Wright 178

7 Superficialism in Ontology John Hawthorne 213

8 Ontology and Alternative Languages Eli Hirsch 231

9 Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics Thomas Hofweber 260

10 Ways of Being Kris McDaniel 290

11 Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks? Huw Price 320

12 On What Grounds What Jonathan Schaffer 347

13 Ontological Realism Theodore Sider 384

14 Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: the Quine-Carnap Dispute Scott Soames 424

15 Answerable and Unanswerable Questions Amie L. Thomasson 444

16 Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment Peter van Inwagen 472

17 Must Existence-Questions have Answers? Stephen Yablo 507

Index 527

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