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Zusatztext Even if you're not a metaphysician - indeed, even if you're deeply suspicious of metaphysics - Metametaphysics is interesting.... Metametaphysics hosts a debate that is much more nuanced than a simple 'skeptics vs. enthusiasts' dichotomy. Skepticism about metaphysics can take different forms and come in different degrees. It is also, unsurprisingly, resistible in a variety of ways. Metametaphysics develops many of the central issues in this dialectic, making it essential reading, not just for the metaphysician, but for the skeptic about metaphysics as well. Informationen zum Autor 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, NoÃ's, and The Philosophical Quarterly. Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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, NoÃ's, and
The Philosophical Quarterly.
Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.
