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Carnap, Rudolf, 1928 [1967], Der Logische Aufbau der Welt, Berlin: Weltkreis. Translated as The Logical Structure of the World: Pseudoproblems in Philosophy, Rolf A. George (trans.), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1967. (Scholar)
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Chalmers, David J., 2009, “Ontological Anti-Realism”, in Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman 2009: 77–129 (ch. 3). doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546046.003.0003 (Scholar)
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Chalmers, David John, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman (eds), 2009, Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546046.001.0001
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Dennett, Daniel C., 2013, “Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the Manifest Image”, in Ross, Ladyman, and Kincaid 2013: 96–107 (ch. 5). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696499.003.0005 (Scholar)
Dorr, Cian, 2005, “What We Disagree about When We Disagree about Ontology”, in Fictionalism In Metaphysics, Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 234–286 (ch. 8). doi:10.1093/oso/9780199282180.003.0009 (Scholar)
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Emery, Nina, 2019, “Actualism without Presentism? Not by Way of the Relativity Objection”, Noûs, 53(4): 963–986. doi:10.1111/nous.12247 (Scholar)
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Eklund, Matti, 2008, “The Picture of Reality as an Amorphous Lump”, in Sider, Hawthorne, and Zimmerman: 382–396 (ch. 9.2). (Scholar)
–––, 2016, “Carnap’s Legacy for the Contemporary Metaontological Debate”, in Ontology after Carnap, Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 165–189 (ch. 8). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661985.003.0009 (Scholar)
Fairchild, Maegan, 2019, “The Barest Flutter of the Smallest Leaf: Understanding Material Plenitude”, The Philosophical Review, 128(2): 143–178. doi:10.1215/00318108-7374932 (Scholar)
Fine, Kit, 2003, “The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter”, Mind, 112(446): 195–234. doi:10.1093/mind/112.446.195 (Scholar)
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Finn, Suki and Otávio Bueno, 2018, “Quantifier Variance Dissolved”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 82: 289–307. doi:10.1017/s135824611800005x (Scholar)
Flocke, Vera, 2021, “Ontological Expressivism”, in The Language of Ontology, J. T. M. Miller, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 65–87 (ch. 4). doi:10.1093/oso/9780192895332.003.0005 (Scholar)
Hale, Bob and Crispin Wright, 2001, The Reason’s Proper Study: Essays towards a Neo-Fregean Philosophy of Mathematics, Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/0198236395.001.0001 (Scholar)
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Hawley, Katherine, 2001, How Things Persist, Oxford/New York: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275434.001.0001 (Scholar)
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Hinchliff, Mark, 1996, “The Puzzle of Change”, Philosophical Perspectives, 10: 119–136. doi:10.2307/2216239 (Scholar)
Hirsch, Eli, 2002, “Quantifier Variance and Realism”, Philosophical Issues, 12: 51–73. doi:10.1111/j.1758-2237.2002.tb00061.x (Scholar)
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Hirsch, Eli and Jared Warren, 2019, “Quantifier Variance and the Demand for a Semantics”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 98(3): 592–605. doi:10.1111/phpr.12442 (Scholar)
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Hofweber, Thomas, 2016, Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769835.001.0001 (Scholar)
Horgan, Terence and Matjaž Potrč, 2000, “Blobjectivism and Indirect Correspondence”, Facta Philosophica, 2(2): 249–270. doi:10.5840/factaphil20002214 (Scholar)
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Hume, David, 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, London: A. Millar. (Scholar)
Ismael, Jenann, 2013, “Causation, Free Will, and Naturalism”, in 208–235 (ch. 10). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696499.003.0010 (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 1781/87, Critik der reinen Vernunft, first edition, Riga: Hartknoch. Second edition 1787. Translated as Critique of Pure Reason, Norman Kemp Smith (trans.), London: MacMillan, 1929. (Scholar)
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Ladyman, James and Don Ross with David Spurrett, and John G. Collier, 2007, Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276196.001.0001 (Scholar)
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