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