LEADER 02858nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910824489903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-383-04521-6 010 $a1-282-05334-5 010 $a9786612053344 010 $a0-19-156768-X 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780199546046.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724214 035 $a(EBL)430373 035 $a(OCoLC)319212744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL430373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288367 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL205334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430373 035 $a(OCoLC)1406788985 035 $a(StDuBDS)9781383045215 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724214 100 $a20081103d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMetametaphysics $enew essays on the foundations of ontology /$fedited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (540 p.) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online 300 $aThis 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. 311 $a0-19-954604-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a16. Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment17. Must Existence-Questions have Answers?; Index 330 8 $aThis volume investigates the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aOntology$vCongresses 606 $aMetaphysics$vCongresses 615 0$aOntology 615 0$aMetaphysics 676 $a110.1 701 $aChalmers$b David John$f1966-$061384 701 $aManley$b David$0918882 701 $aWasserman$b Ryan$01659024 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824489903321 996 $aMetametaphysics$94013457 997 $aUNINA