Pacific APA 2011

The Carnap/Quine debate and its contemporary relevance to metaontology

Session 1

Chair: Paul M. Livingston (University of New Mexico)

Richard Creath (Arizona State University)
Carnap’s Ontological Caution

Amie Thomasson (University of Miami)
Carnap and the Prospects for Easy Ontology

Session 2

Chair: Sandra Lapointe (Kansas State University)

Luke Thompson (Monash University)
Why Carnap needs a Rationalist Psychology to support his Deflationism

Greg Lavers (Concordia University)
On the Quinean-analyticity of mathematical propositions