In the decades following Quine, debates about existence have taken center stage in the
metaphysics. But neo-Quinean ontology has reached a crisis point, given the endless …

In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between metaphysical indeterminacy
and fundamental indeterminacy. Topics discussed include standard arguments for …

This chapter calls for approaching the history of parks, wilderness, and protected areas not
as an American ideal, but as a product of practice and politics contested in local, national …

The metaphysics of macroscopic objects has come under attack from metaontological
deflationists who argue that answers to ontological questions concerning macroscopic …

Abstract Terms such as 'exist','actual', etc.,(hereafter,“ontic terms”) are recognized as having
uses that are not ontologically committing, in addition to the usual commissive …

Metaphysics has had a long history of debate over its viability, and substantivity. This thesis
explores issues connected to the realism question within the domain of metaphysics …

This thesis offers detailed remarks on debates in metametaphysics, the question of
ontological emergence and the merits of extra-empirical theory choice criteria, such as …

This thesis is concerned with the methodological role of intuitions in metaphysics. It is
divided into two main parts. Part I argues that an academic field can only employ a method …

putes about the metaphysics of composition are substantial: they are neither merely
apparent disputes in which disputants are talking past one another in virtue of disagreeing …

Serious ontology is the view that metaphysical debates about existence are deep,
theoretical, quasi-scientific debates about the nature and constituents of reality. Serious …