Metametaphysics
Subtitle: new essays on the foundations of ontology
By: edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman.
Contributors: Chalmers, David John, 1966-; Manley, David.; Wasserman, Ryan.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780199546008; 9780199546046
Subjects: Ontology -- Congresses; Metaphysics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes index.

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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A guided tour of metametaphysics / David Manley; title: Composition, colocation, and metaontology / Karen Bennett; title: Ontological anti-realism / David J. Chalmers; title: Carnap and ontological pluralism / Matti Eklund; title: The question of ontology / Kit Fine; title: The metaontology of abstraction / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright; title: Superficialism in ontology / John Hawthorne; title: Ontology and alternative languages / Eli Hirsch; title: Ambitious, yet modest, metaphysics / Thomas Hofweber; title: Ways ofbeing / Kris McDaniel; title: Metaphysics after Carnap : the ghost who walks? / Huw Price; title: On what grounds what / Jonathan Schaffer; title: Ontological realism / Theodore Sider; title: Ontology, analyticity, and meaning : the Quine-Carnap dispute / Scott Soames; title: Answerable and unanswerable questions / Amie L. Thomasson; title: Being, existence, and ontological commitment / Peter van Inwagen; title: Must existence-questions have answers? / Stephen Yablo.