Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics

<p>Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years. Perhaps nowhere are these discussions more developed than in relation to the field of metaphysics.</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics is an outstanding reference source to this growing subject. It comprises thirty-eight chapters written by leading international contributors, and is arranged around five themes:</p><p>• The history of metametaphysics</p><p>• Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors)</p><p>• Alternative conceptions of metaphysics</p><p>• The epistemology of metaphysics</p><p>• Science and metaphysics.</p><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in metaphysics, philosophical methodology, and ontology, <i>The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics </i>will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of science.</p> <p>Introduction: What is Metametaphysics? <i>Ricki Bliss and JTM Miller </i><b>Part 1: The History of Metametaphysics </b>1. Metametaphysics in Plato and Aristotle <em>Vasilis Politis </em>2. Kantian Meta-Ontology <em>Ralf M. Bader </em>3. Rudolf Carnap: Pragmatist and Expressivist about Ontology <em>Robert Kraut </em>4. Quine’s Metametaphysics <em>Karl Egerton </em>5. Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism <em>Jussi Haukioja </em>6. From Modal to Post-Modal Metaphysics <em>Nathan Wildman </em><b>Part 2: Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors) </b>7. Ontological Commitment and Quantifiers <em>Ted Parent </em>8. Quantifier Variance <em>Rohan Sud and David Manley </em>9. Verbal Disputes and Metaphysics <em>Brendan Balcerak Jackson </em>10. Absolute Generality <em>Agustín Rayo </em>11. The Metametaphysics of Neo-Fregeanism <em>Matti Eklund </em>12. Easy Ontology <em>Amie L. Thomasson </em>13. Defending the importance of ordinary existence questions and debates <em>Jody Azzouni </em>14. Ontological Pluralism <em>Jason Turner </em><b>Part 3: Alternative Conceptions of Metaphysics </b>15. Grounding <em>Alexander Skiles and Kelly Trogdon </em>16. Fundamentality <em>Ricki Bliss </em>17. Metaphysical Explanation <em>Naomi Thompson </em>18. Truthmaking and Metametaphysics <em>Ross P. Cameron </em>19. Essence <em>Jessica Leech </em>20. Fictionalist Strategies in Metaphysics <em>Lukas Skiba and Richard Woodward </em>21. Global expressivism <em>Stephen Barker </em>22. Hylomorphic unity <em>Anna Marmodoro </em>23. Feminist Metaphysics <em>Elizabeth Barnes </em>24. Social Ontology <em>Rebecca Mason and Katherine Ritchie </em>25. Natural Language Ontology <em>Friederike Moltmann </em>26. Phenomenology as Metaphysics <em>Dan Zahavi </em><b>Part 4: The Epistemology of Metaphysics </b>27. A Priori or A Posteriori? <em>Tuomas E. Tahko </em>28. The epistemology of modality <em>Sonia Roca-Royes </em>29. Ideology and Ontology <em>Sam Cowling </em>30. Primitives <em>Jiri Benovsky </em>31. Conceptual Analysis in Metaphysics<em> Frank Jackson </em>32. Contingentism in Metaphysics <em>Kristie Miller </em>33. Is Metaphysics Special?<em> Thomas Hofweber </em><b>Part 5: Science and Metaphysics </b>34. Science Guided Metaphysics <em>Kerry McKenzie </em>35. Methods in Science and Metaphysics <em>Matt Farr and Milena Ivanova</em> 36. Thing and Non-Thing Ontologies<em> Michael Esfeld </em>37. Moderately Naturalised Metaphysics <em>Matteo Morganti </em>38. Science of the Possible <em>JTM Miller. </em><em>Index</em></p>