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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824489903321

Titolo

Metametaphysics : new essays on the foundations of ontology / / edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-04521-6

1-282-05334-5

9786612053344

0-19-156768-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (540 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

ChalmersDavid John <1966->

ManleyDavid

WassermanRyan

Disciplina

110.1

Soggetti

Ontology

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This volume investigates 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.