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Metametaphysics
New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
Edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman
544 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954600-8
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Paperback
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19 February 2009
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- A collection of papers in one of the hottest areas of current analytic philosophy
- Features a stellar cast that includes many of the world's leading philosophers.
- All papers previously unpublished
- Currently the only collection focussed specifically on this topic, which is a growing area of debate.
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.Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy
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Edited by David Chalmers, Australian National University, David Manley, University of Southern California, and Ryan Wasserman, Western Washington University Contributors:
Karen Bennett, Cornell University
David Chalmers, Australian National University
Matti Eklund, Cornell University
Kit Fine, New York University
Bob Hale, University of Sheffield
John Hawthorne, University of Oxford
Eli Hirsch, Brandeis University
Thomas Hofweber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Manley, University of Southern
California
Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University
Huw Price, University of Sydney
Jonathan Schaffer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Theodore Sider, New York University
Scott Soames, University of Southern California
Amie L. Thomasson, University of Miami
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
Crispin Wright, University of St Andrews
Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1: David Manley: Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics
2: Karen Bennett: Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology
3: David Chalmers: Ontological Anti-Realism
4: Matti Eklund: Carnap and Ontological Pluralism
5: Kit Fine: The Question of Ontology
6: Bob Hale and Crispin Wright: The Metaontology of Abstraction
7: John Hawthorne: Superficialism in Ontology
8: Eli Hirsch: Ontology and Alternative Languages
9: Thomas Hofweber: Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics
10: Kris McDaniel: Ways of Being
11: Huw Price: Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?
12: Jonathan Schaffer: On What Grounds What
13: Theodore Sider: Ontological Realism
14: Scott Soames: Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute
15: Amie L. Thomasson: Answerable and Unanswerable Questions
16: Peter van Inwagen: Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment
17: Stephen Yablo: Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?
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