| Description |
viii, 529 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Ontology.
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Metaphysics.
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| Added Author |
Chalmers, David John, 1966-
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Manley, David (David Jeffrey)
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Wasserman, Ryan.
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| ISBN |
9780199546008 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199546002 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780199546046 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0199546045 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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