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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chalmers, David John, 1966- editor.

Manley, David (David Jeffrey), editor.

Wasserman, Ryan, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--Congresses.

Metaphysics.

Ontology--Congresses.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (540 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04521-6

1-282-05334-5

9786612053344

0-19-156768-X

OCLC:

319212744