Book contents
- An Introduction to Metametaphysics
- An Introduction to Metametaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Why should you care about metametaphysics?
- 2 Quine vs. Carnap: on what there is and what there isn’t
- 3 Quantification and ontological commitment
- 4 Identifying the alternatives: ontological realism, deflationism, and conventionalism
- 5 Grounding and ontological dependence
- 6 Fundamentality and levels of reality
- 7 The epistemology of metaphysics: a priori or a posteriori?
- 8 Intuitions and thought experiments in metaphysics
- 9 Demarcating metaphysics and science: can metaphysics be naturalized?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Copyright page
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2023
- An Introduction to Metametaphysics
- An Introduction to Metametaphysics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Why should you care about metametaphysics?
- 2 Quine vs. Carnap: on what there is and what there isn’t
- 3 Quantification and ontological commitment
- 4 Identifying the alternatives: ontological realism, deflationism, and conventionalism
- 5 Grounding and ontological dependence
- 6 Fundamentality and levels of reality
- 7 The epistemology of metaphysics: a priori or a posteriori?
- 8 Intuitions and thought experiments in metaphysics
- 9 Demarcating metaphysics and science: can metaphysics be naturalized?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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- An Introduction to Metametaphysics , pp. ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015