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Titolo |
Metametaphysics [[electronic resource] ] : new essays on the foundations of ontology / / edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-05334-5 |
9786612053344 |
0-19-156768-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (540 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChalmersDavid John <1966-> |
ManleyDavid |
WassermanRyan |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ontology |
Metaphysics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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This volume grew out of two conferences, one held at the Australian National University in June 2005, and another held at Boise State University in Mar. 2007. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics; 2. Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology; 3. Ontological Anti-Realism; 4. Carnap and Ontological Pluralism; 5. The Question of Ontology; 6. The Metaontology of Abstraction; 7. Superficialism in Ontology; 8. Ontology and Alternative Languages; 9. Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics; 10. Ways of Being; 11. Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?; 12. On What Grounds What; 13. Ontological Realism; 14. Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: the Quine-Carnap Dispute; 15. Answerable and Unanswerable Questions |
16. Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment17. Must Existence-Questions have Answers?; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume investigates the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a |
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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. - ;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 recei |
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