1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics
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.
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:
• The history of metametaphysics
• Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors)
• Alternative conceptions of metaphysics
• The epistemology of metaphysics
• Science and metaphysics.
Essential reading for students and researchers in metaphysics, philosophical methodology, and ontology, The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics will also be of interest to those in closely related subjects such as philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of science.
Introduction: What is Metametaphysics? Ricki Bliss and JTM Miller
Part 1: The History of Metametaphysics
1. Metametaphysics in Plato and Aristotle Vasilis Politis
2. Kantian Meta-Ontology Ralf M. Bader
3. Rudolf Carnap: Pragmatist and Expressivist about Ontology Robert Kraut
4. Quine’s Metametaphysics Karl Egerton
5. Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism Jussi Haukioja
6. From Modal to Post-Modal Metaphysics Nathan Wildman
Part 2: Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors)
7. Ontological Commitment and Quantifiers Ted Parent
8. Quantifier Variance Rohan Sud and David Manley
9. Verbal Disputes and Metaphysics Brendan Balcerak Jackson
10. Absolute Generality Agustín Rayo
11. The Metametaphysics of Neo-Fregeanism Matti Eklund
12. Easy Ontology Amie L. Thomasson
13. Defending the importance of ordinary existence questions and debates Jody Azzouni
14. Ontological Pluralism Jason Turner
Part 3: Alternative Conceptions of Metaphysics
15. Grounding Alexander Skiles and Kelly Trogdon
16. Fundamentality Ricki Bliss
17. Metaphysical Explanation Naomi Thompson
18. Truthmaking and Metametaphysics Ross P. Cameron
19. Essence Jessica Leech
20. Fictionalist Strategies in Metaphysics Lukas Skiba and Richard Woodward
21. Global expressivism Stephen Barker
22. Hylomorphic unity Anna Marmodoro
23. Feminist Metaphysics Elizabeth Barnes
24. Social Ontology Rebecca Mason and Katherine Ritchie
25. Natural Language Ontology Friederike Moltmann
26. Phenomenology as Metaphysics Dan Zahavi
Part 4: The Epistemology of Metaphysics
27. A Priori or A Posteriori? Tuomas E. Tahko
28. The epistemology of modality Sonia Roca-Royes
29. Ideology and Ontology Sam Cowling
30. Primitives Jiri Benovsky
31. Conceptual Analysis in Metaphysics Frank Jackson
32. Contingentism in Metaphysics Kristie Miller
33. Is Metaphysics Special? Thomas Hofweber
Part 5: Science and Metaphysics
34. Science Guided Metaphysics Kerry McKenzie
35. Methods in Science and Metaphysics Matt Farr and Milena Ivanova
36. Thing and Non-Thing Ontologies Michael Esfeld
37. Moderately Naturalised Metaphysics Matteo Morganti
38. Science of the Possible JTM Miller.
Index
Biography
Ricki Bliss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lehigh University, USA. Her research focuses primarily on issues in foundational metaphysics with a particular interest in how history, in particular the history of Christian thought, might bear on those issues.
J.T.M. Miller is a philosopher based at the University of Nottingham, UK. From July 2020, he will be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on issues at the intersection of metaphysics, and philosophy of language and linguistics, including on the nature of metaphysical disputes, how to assess metaphysical theories, and the metaphysics of language.
