Metametaphysics : New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

David Chalmers

ISBN 10: 0199546045 / ISBN 13: 9780199546046

Published by Oxford University Press (UK) Apr 2009, 2009

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Neuware - Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words What is the proper methodology for their resolution These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns 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.

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• Title: Metametaphysics : New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) Apr 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199546045
• ISBN 13: 9780199546046
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics.

This volume concerns 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.

About the Author

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but is also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, in philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, and in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics.

David Manley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His papers in metaphysics and epistemology have appeared in such journals as Mind, The Journal of Philosophy, Nous, and Philosophical Quarterly. Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.