TY - BOOK AU - Chalmers,David John AU - Manley,David AU - Wasserman,Ryan TI - Metametaphysics: new essays on the foundations of ontology SN - 9780199546008 AV - BD311 M587 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press KW - Ontology KW - Metaphysics N1 - 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; Introduction : a guided tour of metametaphysics / David Manley -- Composition, colocation, and metaontology / Karen Bennett -- Ontological anti-realism / David J. Chalmers -- Carnap and ontological pluralism / Matti Eklund -- The question of ontology / Kit Fine -- The metaontology of abstraction / Bob Hale and Crispin Wright -- Superficialism in ontology / John Hawthorne -- Ontology and alternative languages / Eli Hirsch -- Ambitious, yet modest, metaphysics / Thomas Hofweber -- Ways of being / Kris McDaniel -- Metaphysics after Carnap : the ghost who walks? / Huw Price -- On what grounds what / Jonathan Schaffer -- Ontological realism / Theodore Sider -- Ontology, analyticity, and meaning : the Quine-Carnap dispute / Scott Soames -- Answerable and unanswerable questions / Amie L. Thomasson -- Being, existence, and ontological commitment / Peter van Inwagen -- Must existence-questions have answers? / Stephen Yablo; HKBU library; YT2025 M08 ER -