ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

What is metametaphysics?

part I|72 pages

The history of metametaphysics

chapter 2|9 pages

Kantian Meta-Ontology 1

chapter 3|17 pages

Rudolf Carnap

Pragmatist and expressivist about ontology

chapter 4|12 pages

Quine’s Metametaphysics

part II|113 pages

Neo-Quineanism (and its objectors)

chapter 8|18 pages

Quantifier Variance

chapter 10|13 pages

Absolute Generality

chapter 12|12 pages

Easy Ontology

chapter 14|12 pages

Ontological Pluralism

part III|153 pages

Alternative conceptions of metaphysics

chapter 15|12 pages

Grounding

chapter 16|11 pages

Fundamentality

chapter 17|11 pages

Metaphysical Explanation

chapter 18|12 pages

Truthmaking and Metametaphysics

chapter 19|14 pages

Essence

chapter 21|14 pages

Global Expressivism

chapter 22|16 pages

Hylomorphic Unity 1

chapter 23|12 pages

Feminist Metametaphysics

chapter 24|13 pages

Social Ontology

chapter 25|14 pages

Natural Language Ontology

chapter 26|11 pages

Phenomenology as Metaphysics

part IV|81 pages

The epistemology of metaphysics

chapter 27|11 pages

A Priori or a Posteriori?

chapter 28|12 pages

The Epistemology of Modality

chapter 29|11 pages

Ideology and Ontology

chapter 30|8 pages

Primitives

chapter 31|10 pages

Conceptual Analysis in Metaphysics

chapter 32|16 pages

Contingentism in Metaphysics 1

chapter 33|11 pages

Is Metaphysics Special?

part V|59 pages

Science and metaphysics