/ edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman
Oxford
: Clarendon Press ;New York :Oxford University Press
, 2009.
viii, 529 p.
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.
Bibliography
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.