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.

[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.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Carnap's Big Idea ; 3. Three Carnaps on Ontology ; 4. Frameworks and Deflation in 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and Recent Metametaphysics ; 5. Carnap, the Necessary A Posteriori, and Metaphysical Nihilism ; 6. Three Degrees of Carnapian Tolerance ; 7. Carnap and the Prospects for Easy Ontology ; 8. Much Ado about Something-from-Nothing; or, Problems for Ontological Minimalism ; 9. Carnap's Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate ; 10. Carnap and Ontology: Foreign Travel and Domestic Understanding ; 11. Carnap on Abstract and Theoretical Entities ; 12. Questions of Ontology

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.

[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.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Carnap's Big Idea ; 3. Three Carnaps on Ontology ; 4. Frameworks and Deflation in 'Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology' and Recent Metametaphysics ; 5. Carnap, the Necessary A Posteriori, and Metaphysical Nihilism ; 6. Three Degrees of Carnapian Tolerance ; 7. Carnap and the Prospects for Easy Ontology ; 8. Much Ado about Something-from-Nothing; or, Problems for Ontological Minimalism ; 9. Carnap's Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate ; 10. Carnap and Ontology: Foreign Travel and Domestic Understanding ; 11. Carnap on Abstract and Theoretical Entities ; 12. Questions of Ontology