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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Metaontology"”.

  1. Ontological Pragmatism

    Mitchell , KyleUniversity of Cambridge2018

    Ontology is the study of what exists. Metaontology is the study of ontology. This dissertation is a work in metaontology. In particular, its goal is to develop, motivate, defend, and explore a distinctively pragmatist metaontology --- a pragmatist account of how to answer existence questions. To do …

    cambridge Repository record

  2. Neo-Quinean and neo-Aristotelian metaontology : on explanation, theory choice, and the viability of ontological inquiry

    LACEY, Micheál Vincent

    lingnan Repository record

  3. Deflationary Metaphysics

    Rowe, EricCornell University2015

    This dissertation consists of three papers on a handful of related metaphysical and metametaphysical topics. The first examines the connection between analyticity and ontology. Some hold that we can trivially resolve longstanding ontological debates by appealing to "ampliative" analytic truths …

    cornell Repository record