Ontology and Metaontology A Contemporary Guide 1st Edition by Francesco Berto, Matteo Plebani ISBN 1472573293 9781472573292

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Author:  Francesco Berto, Matteo Plebani 

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide 1st Edition: Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide is a clear and accessible survey of ontology, focusing on the most recent trends in the discipline. Divided into parts, the first half characterizes metaontology: the discourse on the methodology of ontological inquiry, covering the main concepts, tools, and methods of the discipline, exploring the notions of being and existence, ontological commitment, paraphrase strategies, fictionalist strategies, and other metaontological questions. The second half considers a series of case studies, introducing and familiarizing the reader with concrete examples of the latest research in the field. The basic sub-fields of ontology are covered here via an accessible and captivating exposition: events, properties, universals, abstract objects, possible worlds, material beings, mereology, fictional objects. The guide’s modular structure allows for a flexible approach to the subject, making it suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates looking to better understand and apply the exciting developments and debates taking place in ontology today.

 

Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1 Quinean Metaontology
Chapter 1 On Denoting

1. Language, thought and what is out there
2. Descriptions and the current king of France
3. Quantifiers and logical form
4. Paraphrase

Chapter 2 1948: On What There Is

1. Thesis one: Ontology’s fundamental question is ‘What Is There?’
2. Thesis two: Everything exists
3. Thesis three: Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment (or, some ontological positions are)
4. Thesis four: Naturalism

Chapter 3 The Standard View

1. Paraphrase strategies
2. No entity without identity
3. The meaning(s) of being

Part 2 Alternative Metaontologies
Chapter 4 Ontological Pluralism and Neo-Fregeanism

1. Ontological pluralism
2. Neo-Fregean metaontology

Chapter 5 Carnap’s View of Ontology and Neo-Carnapians

1. The original Carnap: Internal vs. external as meaningful vs. meaningless
2. Quantifier variance: ‘It all depends on what you mean by …’
3. Internal vs. external role of the quantifier
4. Other Carnapian approaches

Chapter 6 Fictionalism

1. Are we serious?
2. Philosophy-Fiction
3. How does fictional discourse work?
4. Varieties of fictionalism
5. Other motivations for fictionalism: Oracles and paradoxes
6. Problems with fictionalism: Philosophical authority, autistic children and bombs

Chapter 7 Meinongianism

1. Introducing Meinongianism
2. Meinongian quantifiers and ontological commitment
3. Candidate non-existents
4. What is existence, then?
5. The principle of comprehension and its troubles
6. Neo-Meinongianisms of various kinds

Chapter 8 The Grounding Approach

1. The fundamental question of ontology
2. The features of grounding
3. The metaontology of grounding
4. The problems of grounding

Part 3 Ontology
Chapter 9 Abstract Objects I: Numbers & Co.

1. Abstract vs. concrete entities
2. Mathematical objects: Why ‘No’
3. Mathematical objects: Why ‘Yes’
4. Ways to be a nominalist
5. Ways to be a platonist
6. Ontology and ideology

Chapter 10 Abstract Objects II: Linguistic Types, Propositions and Values

1. Types vs. tokens
2. Propositions
3. Ethics with ontology?

Chapter 11 Possible Worlds

1. A philosopher’s paradise
2. Ontological realism on worlds
3. Non-standard approaches

Chapter 12 Material Objects

1. What are material objects?
2. Mereology
3. Decomposition
4. Composition
5. Synchronic identity and co-location
6. Diachronic identity

Chapter 13 Fictional Objects

1. Fiction
2. Realist abstractionism
3. Talk of fictional objects as fictional talk
4. Fictional objects as non-existents

Chapter 14 Beyond Particulars: Properties and Events

1. Introducing properties and universals
2. Events

 

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