02963nam 2200517Ia 450 991082448990332120230721005333.01-383-04521-61-282-05334-597866120533440-19-156768-X(CKB)1000000000724214(EBL)430373(OCoLC)319212744(Au-PeEL)EBL430373(CaPaEBR)ebr10288367(CaONFJC)MIL205334(MiAaPQ)EBC430373(EXLCZ)99100000000072421420081103d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Metametaphysics[electronic resource] new essays on the foundations of ontology /edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan WassermanOxford Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (540 p.)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. 2007.0-19-954604-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Questions16. Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment17. Must Existence-Questions have Answers?; IndexThis 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. - ;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 receiOntologyCongressesMetaphysicsCongressesOntologyMetaphysics110.1Chalmers David John1966-61384Manley David918882Wasserman Ryan1659024MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824489903321Metametaphysics4013457UNINA