Metametaphysics

New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-954600-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chalmers, David

Manley, David

Wasserman, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

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, Noûs, and The Philosophical Quarterly.

Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.