| Sumario: | Some philosophers of science have suggested that contemporary science should be the source of inspiration to the new analytic metaphysics (A. Chakravartty, C. Callender, S. French, J. Ladyman, T. Maudlin, etc.). This paper explores the prospect of a "string metaphysics": a research program in analytic metaphysics based on string theory. Different forms of fundamentalism and pluralism are discussed in this context. The paper focuses on string metaphysics with S-dualities (a relation between models of string theory at different coupling regimes) and argues that fundamentality and compositionality have to be reconceptualized. String metaphysics with dualities is better couched in terms of metaphysical pluralism. Grounding, as well as a sketch of a string modality, are briefly discussed. The paper concludes with a suggestion for future work: the metaphysician may find a productive ground for research in discussing other dualities (especially T-dualities, or AdS/CFT duality), the emergence of spacetime, the concept of time in string theory, the multiverse etc.
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