Metametaphysics

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 de...

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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.

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 sc...

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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.

1: David Manley: Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics
2: Karen Bennett: Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology
3: David Chalmers: Ontological Anti-Realism
4: Matti Eklund: Carnap and Ontological Pluralism
5: Kit Fine: The Question of Ontology
6: Bob Hale and Crispin Wright: The Metaontology of Abstraction
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1: David Manley: Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics
2: Karen Bennett: Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology
3: David Chalmers: Ontological Anti-Realism
4: Matti Eklund: Carnap and Ontological Pluralism
5: Kit Fine: The Question of Ontology
6: Bob Hale and Crispin Wright: The Metaontology of Abstraction
7: John Hawthorne: Superficialism in Ontology
8: Eli Hirsch: Ontology and Alternative Languages
9: Thomas Hofweber: Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics
10: Kris McDaniel: Ways of Being
11: Huw Price: Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?
12: Jonathan Schaffer: On What Grounds What
13: Theodore Sider: Ontological Realism
14: Scott Soames: Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute
15: Amie L. Thomasson: Answerable and Unanswerable Questions
16: Peter van Inwagen: Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment
17: Stephen Yablo: Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?
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