Table of Contents

1: David Manley: Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics
2: Karen Bennett: Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology
3: David Chalmers: Ontological Anti-Realism
4: Matti Eklund: Carnap and Ontological Pluralism
5: Kit Fine: The Question of Ontology
6: Bob Hale and Crispin Wright: The Metaontology of Abstraction
7: John Hawthorne: Superficialism in Ontology
8: Eli Hirsch: Ontology and Alternative Languages
9: Thomas Hofweber: Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics
10: Kris McDaniel: Ways of Being
11: Huw Price: Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?
12: Jonathan Schaffer: On What Grounds What
13: Theodore Sider: Ontological Realism
14: Scott Soames: Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute
15: Amie L. Thomasson: Answerable and Unanswerable Questions
16: Peter van Inwagen: Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment
17: Stephen Yablo: Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?

About the Author

David Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He works in the philosophy of mind and in related areas of philosophy and cognitive science. He is especially interested in consciousness, but is also interested in artificial intelligence and computation, in philosophical issues about meaning and possibility, and in the foundations of cognitive science and of physics.
David Manley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His papers in metaphysics and epistemology have appeared in such journals as Mind, The Journal of Philosophy, Noûs, and The Philosophical Quarterly. Ryan Wasserman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.

Reviews

Metametaphysics is an excellent collection of papers about the nature and methodology of metaphysics written by the subject's movers and shakers. It will be of great interest to anyone enamored, repulsed, or mystified by metaphysics.
*Philosophical Review*

Even if you're not a metaphysician - indeed, even if you're deeply suspicious of metaphysics - Metametaphysics is interesting.... Metametaphysics hosts a debate that is much more nuanced than a simple 'skeptics vs. enthusiasts' dichotomy. Skepticism about metaphysics can take different forms and come in different degrees. It is also, unsurprisingly, resistible in a variety of ways. Metametaphysics develops many of the central issues in this dialectic, making it essential reading, not just for the metaphysician, but for the skeptic about metaphysics as well.
*Elizabeth Barnes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*