Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Stephan Blatti (University of Memphis) ,  Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9780199661985

ISBN 10:   0199661987
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   24 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

1: Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe: Introduction 2: Thomas Hofweber: Carnap's Big Idea 3: Robert Kraut: Three Carnaps on Ontology 4: Alan Sidelle: Frameworks and Deflation in 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and Recent Metametaphysics 5: Stephen Biggs and Jessica Wilson: Carnap, the Necessary A Posteriori, and Metaphysical Nihilism 6: Eli Hirsch: Three Degrees of Carnapian Tolerance 7: Amie Thomasson: Carnap and the Prospects for Easy Ontology 8: Simon Evnine: Much Ado about Something-from-Nothing; or, Problems for Ontological Minimalism 9: Matti Eklund: Carnap's Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate 10: Richard Creath: Carnap and Ontology: Foreign Travel and Domestic Understanding 11: Greg Lavers: Carnap on Abstract and Theoretical Entities 12: Kathrin Koslicki: Questions of Ontology

Reviews

[A] collection of rewarding papers that each wrestle with the legacy Carnap has left us ... plenty of interesting material for anyone with an interest in ontology, metaontology or Carnap. * Darren Bradley, Analysis *

This excellent volume is a must-read for those curious about recent work in ontology and metaontology, and the Carnapian turn that is has taken. * Linda Wetzel, Australasian Journal of Philosophy. * [A] collection of rewarding papers that each wrestle with the legacy Carnap has left us ... plenty of interesting material for anyone with an interest in ontology, metaontology or Carnap. * Darren Bradley, Analysis *

Author Information

Stephan Blatti is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, where he also serves as Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities and is an affiliate member of the Institute for Intelligent Systems. His work focuses primarily on personal identity and its relation to issues in ontology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of biology, and at the intersection of metaphysics and ethics. In addition to numerous articles, he is the co-editor (with Paul Snowdon) of Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals and Identity (OUP, 2016) Sandra Lapointe is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and a Research Affiliate of the Bertrand Russell Research Centre at McMaster University. A Commonwealth alumna and a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, she completed her PhD in 2000 at the University of Leeds (UK) and held various research positions (Montreal, Luxembourg, France) before accepting tenure-track jobs at Concordia University in Montreal and then at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She specializes in the history of analytical philosophy. Her published work includes New Anti-Kant (ed., with Clinton Tolley, 2014), Bolzano's Theoretical Philosophy (2011), Qu'est-ce que l'analyse? (2008), and a number of other books, articles, and book chapters. She is currently the Chief Editor of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy and coordinates the activities of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions