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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (540 p.)
• Disciplina: 110.1
• Soggetto topico: Ontology; Metaphysics
• Altri autori: ChalmersDavid John <1966-> ManleyDavid WassermanRyan
• 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. - ;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
• Titolo autorizzato: Metametaphysics
• ISBN: 1-383-04521-6; 1-282-05334-5; 9786612053344; 0-19-156768-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782823003321
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