Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology

This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Features

• A collection of papers in one of the hottest areas of current analytic philosophy
• Features a stellar cast that includes many of the world's leading philosophers.
• All papers previously unpublished
• Currently the only collection focussed specifically on this topic, which is a growing area of debate.

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Reviews

"Metametaphysics is an excellent collection of papers about the nature and methodology of metaphysics written by the subject's movers and shakers. It will be of great interest to anyone enamored, repulsed, or mystified by metaphysics." -- Philosophical Review

 

"[E]ven if you're not a metaphysician -- indeed, even if you're deeply suspicious of metaphysics -- Metametaphysics is interesting.... Metametaphysics hosts a debate that is much more nuanced than a simple 'skeptics vs. enthusiasts' dichotomy. Skepticism about metaphysics can take different forms and come in different degrees. It is also, unsurprisingly, resistible in a variety of ways. Metametaphysics develops many of the central issues in this dialectic, making it essential reading, not just for the metaphysician, but for the skeptic about metaphysics as well."-- Elizabeth Barnes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews