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Preface ; Part I: Naturalized Metaphysics ; Chapter 1: Ontology: scientific and meta-scientific; 1.1 Scientific and philosophical conceptions of ontology; 1.2 Deflationary ontology: historicism; sociology; pragmatics; 1.3 Ontological limits: empiricism; scientific realism; metaphysics; 1.4 Do case studies of science settle ontological disputes?; 1.5 Examples of the robustness of ontology under cases; Chapter 2: Science and metaphysics, then and now; 2.1 Ontology and the nature of metaphysical inference; 2.2 Is modern science inherently metaphysical?; 2.3 Epistemic stances regarding scientific ontology; 2.4 Metaphysical inferences: lowercase ’m’ versus capital ’M’; 2.5 The (possible) autonomy of (some) metaphysics from science; Chapter 3: Naturalism and the grounding metaphor; 3.1 In hopes of a demarcation of scientific ontology; 3.2 On conflating the a priori with that which is prior; 3.3 How not to naturalize metaphysical inferences; 3.4 Unpacking the metaphors: grounding and distance; 3.5 On the distinction between theorizing and speculating; Part II: Illustrations and Morals ; Chapter 4: Dispositions: science as a basis for scientific ontology; 4.1 How dispositions manifest in the philosophy of science; 4.2 Explanatory power I: unifying aspects of scientific realism; 4.3 Explanatory power II: giving scientific explanations; 4.4 Explanatory power III: consolidating scientific knowledge; 4.5 Property identity and the actual power of explanatory power; Chapter 5: Structures: science as a constraint on scientific ontology; 5.1 Thinking about ontology in the domain of fundamental physics; 5.2 Situating an ontological inquiry into subatomic particles; 5.3 Structuralist interpretations of the metaphysics of particles; 5.4 Reasoning about ontological bedrock: an unavoidable dilemma; 5.5 Dissolving the dilemma: the variability of belief and suspension; Part III: Voluntarist Epistemology; Chapter 6: Knowledge under ontological uncertainty; 6.1 Inconsistent ontologies and incompatible beliefs; 6.2 Belief and ontological pluralism: perspectival knowledge?; 6.3 A trilemma for perspectivism: irrelevant; unstable; incoherent; 6.4 Two kinds of context-transcendent pluralism about ontology; 6.5 Ontological explanation and contrastive what-questions; Chapter 7: The nature and provenance of epistemic stances; 7.1 An indefeasible persistence of ontological disagreement; 7.2 Stances revisited: deflationary; empiricist; metaphysical; 7.3 A voluntarist primer on choosing stances and beliefs; 7.4 Epistemic stances in conflict: rationality and robustness; 7.5 In defense of permissive norms of rationality for stances; Chapter 8: Coda: voluntarism with lessons from Pyrrho and Sextus; 8.1 Getting to the bottom of it all, while awake; 8.2 Skeptical arguments: some Modes of Agrippa; 8.3 A Pyrrhonian analogy: isostheneia and aphasia; 8.4 Extending analogy a bit further: ataraxia; 8.5 A transformative epistemology of scientific ontology; Bibliography; Index

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