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Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology [Pehme köide]

Edited by (Western Washington University), Edited by (University of Southern California), Edited by (Australian National University)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 544 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 232x157x28 mm, kaal: 819 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2009
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199546002
  • ISBN-13: 9780199546008
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 544 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 232x157x28 mm, kaal: 819 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2009
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0199546002
  • ISBN-13: 9780199546008
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 is an excellent collection of papers about the nature and methodology of metaphysics written by the subject's movers and shakers. It will be of great interest to anyone enamored, repulsed, or mystified by metaphysics. * Philosophical Review * Even if you're not a metaphysician - indeed, even if you're deeply suspicious of metaphysics - Metametaphysics is interesting.... Metametaphysics hosts a debate that is much more nuanced than a simple 'skeptics vs. enthusiasts' dichotomy. Skepticism about metaphysics can take different forms and come in different degrees. It is also, unsurprisingly, resistible in a variety of ways. Metametaphysics develops many of the central issues in this dialectic, making it essential reading, not just for the metaphysician, but for the skeptic about metaphysics as well. * Elizabeth Barnes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

List of Contributors ix
1. Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics 1
David Manley
2. Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology 38
Karen Bennett
3. Ontological Anti-Realism 77
David J. Chalmers
4. Carnap and Ontological Pluralism 130
Matti Eklund
5. The Question of Ontology 157
Kit Fine
6. The Metaontology of Abstraction 178
Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
7. Superficialism in Ontology 213
John Hawthorne
8. Ontology and Alternative Languages 231
Eli Hirsch
9. Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics 260
Thomas Hofweber
10. Ways of Being 290
Kris McDaniel
11. Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks? 320
Huw Price
12. On What Grounds What 347
Jonathan Schaffer
13. Ontological Realism 384
Theodore Sider
14. Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: the Quine—Carnap Dispute 424
Scott Soames
15. Answerable and Unanswerable Questions 444
Arnie L. Thomasson
16. Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment 472
Peter van Inwagen
17. Must Existence-Questions have Answers? 507
Stephen Yablo
Index 527
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.