Metametaphysics and the Sciences : Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (Hardcover)

Preface Introduction Frode Kjosavik and Camilla Serck-Hanssen Part I: Metametaphysics: The Very Possibility of Metaphysics 1. Kant on Method and Evidence in Metaphysics Frode Kjosavik 2. Essence, Nature, and the Possibility of Metaphysics Houston Smit 3. Towards a Husserlian (Meta-)Metaphysics Christian Beyer 4. Frege on "Es gibt," Being in a Realm, and (Meta-)Ontology Leila Haaparanta Part II: Critical Metaphysics: The Scope and Limits of Metaphysics 5. Thinking-the-world. Science, philosophy, and religion’s threefold quest for the one infinitary Ur-Being Joseph Almog and Olli Koistinen 6. Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature and Freedom Michael Friedman 7. From Nothing to Something ? Why Metaphysics Cannot Be Reduced to Logic Camilla Serck-Hanssen 8. Transcendentally Idealistic Metaphysics and Counterfactual Transcendental Arguments Toni Kannisto 9. Phenomenology as Constitutive Realism David Woodruff Smith 10. Husserl on ‘Besinnung’ and Formal Ontology Mirja Hartimo Part III: Contemporary Metaphysics: The Role of Language and Science 11. Quine on Truth and Metaphysics Charles Parsons 12. The Paradox of the Largest Number: From Aristotle to Cantor Øystein Linnebo 13. Symbolic Construction from the "Purely Infinitesimal": Gauge Invariance, Lie Algebras, and Metaphysics chez Hermann Weyl Thomas Ryckman