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Metametaphysics : new essays on the foundations of ontology /

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 nu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chalmers, David John, 1966- (Editor ), Manley, David (Editor ), Wasserman, Ryan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.