Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

by Ryan Wasserman, David J. Chalmers, David Manley, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546045
• ISBN13: 9780199546046
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"