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Unresolvable Disagreements in Carnap’s Metametaphysics

Metaphilosophy, 2021
AbstractCarnap’s 1931 attack against metaphysics notoriously utilises Heidegger’s work to exemplify the meaninglessness of metaphysical pseudo‐statements. This paper interprets Carnap’s metametaphysics as concerned with delimiting theoretical dialogue in such a manner as to exclude unresolvable disagreements. It puts forth a revised version of Carnap’s
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Metametaphysics

2009
Abstract Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asks questions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words?
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Vikingism as a Metametaphysical Thesis

Metaphilosophy, 2019
AbstractThis paper aims to be a contribution to the recent discussion on the science‐metaphysics relationship. After drawing a distinction between two aspects of the relationship, it defends the theoretical importance of the proposed distinction and argues for the interconnectedness of the aspects in question.
Livanios, Vassilis, Livanios, Vassilis
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Intensional Metametaphysics

Abstract One traditional critique of metaphysics, going back to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, is that non-contingent propositions are either trivially true or trivially false, leaving no room for a substantive science of the non-contingent. This also creates problems for mathematics, logic, and other branches of philosophy.
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An Introduction to Metametaphysics

2015
How do we come to know metaphysical truths? How does metaphysical inquiry work? Are metaphysical debates substantial? These are the questions which characterize metametaphysics. This book, the first systematic student introduction dedicated to metametaphysics, discusses the nature of metaphysics - its methodology, epistemology, ontology and our access ...
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Overcoming Metametaphysics: Nietzsche and Carnap

Nietzsche-Studien, 2018
Abstract This essay focuses on the similarities between Nietzsche’s and Carnap’s views on metaphysics, without ignoring their obvious differences. The essay argues that Nietzsche and Carnap endorse but interpret differently an overcoming metametaphysics characterized by the conjunction of the following three claims: (O-i) an overcoming ...
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Metametaphysics and Substance: Two Case Studies

Axiomathes, 2010
This paper examines an often-ignored aspect of the evaluation of metaphysical analyses, namely, their ontological commitments. Such evaluations are part of metaphysical methodology, and reflection on this methodology is itself part of metametaphysics.
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Categoricalism Versus Dispositionalism: A Case Study in Metametaphysics

Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2014
Using meta-metaphysical instruments, the paper analyzes the dispute between ‘reductionist’ Humean categoricalism and ‘bold’ Anti-Humean dispositionalism. It is argued (contrary to a widespread intuition) that both views are non-Quinean, hence, heavyweight ontological realisms: careful analysis of specific scientific theories alone is not sufficient ...
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Game called on account of fog: metametaphysics and epistemic dismissivism

Philosophical Studies, 2013
Is arguing over ontology a mistake? A recent proposal by Karen Bennett suggests that some metaphysical disputes, such as those over constitution and composition, can be dismissed on epistemic grounds. Given that both sides in a dispute try to minimize the differences between them, there are no good metaphysical grounds for choosing between them.
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Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics

2009
Abstract Metaphysics is concerned with the foundations of reality. It asks questions about the nature of the world, such as: Aside from concrete objects, are there also abstract objects like numbers and properties? Does every event have a cause? What is the nature of possibility and necessity?
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