Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his
ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time
(culminating in the 1982 OUP book The Concept of Identity). Within
the last 10 years, his work on realism and quantifier variance has
been front-and-center in the minds of many metaphysicians.
Metametaphysics, which looks at foundational questions about the
very practice of metaphysics and the questions it raises, is now a
popular area of discussion. There is a lot of anxiety about what
ontology is, and Hirsch's diagnosis of how revisionary ontologists
go wrong is one of the main views being discussed. This volume
collects HIrsch's essays from the last decade (with the exception
of one article from 1978) on ontology and metametaphysics which are
very much tied to these debates. His essays develop a distinctive
language-based argument against various anti-commonsensical views
that have recently dominated ontology. All these views go astray,
Hirsch says, by failing to interpret ordinary assertions about
existence in a plausibly charitable way, so their philosophizing
leads them to misuse language about ontology -- our ordinary
concept of 'what exists' -- in favor of a position othat is quite
different. Hirsch will supply a new introduction. The volume will
interest philosophers of metaphysics currently engaged in these
debates.
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