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Metametaphysics: new essays on the foundations of ontology ; [two conferences on metametaphysics: one held at the Australian National University (ANU) in June 2005, and another held at Boise State University in March 2007]

By Manley , David; Wasserman , Ryan; Chalmers , David John (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press,Clarendon Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780199546046, 0199546045
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2141261 bytes)
Edition
R
Pages
529\540
Library
kolxo3
Time added
2019-04-25 18:00:00
Metaphysics -- Congresses.;Ontology -- Congresses.

Description

Content: 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 Commitment 17. Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?

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