Metametaphysics new essays on the foundations of ontology / edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman.
| Other author | Chalmers, David John, 1966- |
| Other author | Manley, David (David Jeffrey) |
| Other author | Wasserman, Ryan. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | viii, 529 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : a guided tour of metametaphysics / David Manley -- Composition, colocation, and metaontology / Karen Bennett -- Ontological anti-realism / David J. Chalmers -- Carnap and ontological pluralism / Matti Eklund -- The question of ontology / Kit Fine -- The metaontology of abstraction / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright -- Superficialism in ontology / John Hawthorne -- Ontology and alternative languages / Eli Hirsch -- Ambitious, yet modest, metaphysics / Thomas Hofweber -- Ways of being / Kris McDaniel -- Metaphysics after Carnap : the ghost who walks? / Huw Price -- On what grounds what / Jonathan Schaffer -- Ontological realism / Theodore Sider -- Ontology, analyticity, and meaning : the Quine-Carnap dispute / Scott Soames -- Answerable and unanswerable questions / Amie L. Thomasson -- Being, existence, and ontological commitment / Peter van Inwagen -- Must existence-questions have answers? / Stephen Yablo. |
| General note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008046062 |
| ISBN | 9780199546008 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199546002 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780199546046 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199546045 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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