Non-Being
New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence
Published on 18. March 2021
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-0-19-884622-2 (ISBN)
Description
Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, and offers answers from diverse philosophical perspectives. The contributors draw on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions, and the topics range from metaphysics to ethics, from philosophy of science to philosophy of language, and beyond.
Reviews / Votes
As a whole, the collection provides a useful overview of recent philosophical work on nonexistence; it will particularly interest analytic philosophers. * D. A. Forbes, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Choice Connect *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
646 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-884622-2 (9780198846222)
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Persons
Sara Bernstein is Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in metaphysics, with publications on causation, counterfactuals, ontology, fundamentality, time travel, and feminist philosophy.
Tyron Goldschmidt was formerly a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester and Wake Forest University. His publications include Ontological Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics (co-edited with Kenneth Pearce; Oxford University Press, 2018).
Tyron Goldschmidt was formerly a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester and Wake Forest University. His publications include Ontological Arguments (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics (co-edited with Kenneth Pearce; Oxford University Press, 2018).
Content
List of Contributors
Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt: Introduction
1: Sara Bernstein: Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being
2: Graham Priest: Nothingness and the Ground of Reality: Heidegger and Nishida
3: Roy Sorensen: Thales' Riddle of the Night
4: Fatema Amijee: Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental
5: Filippo Casati and Naoya Fujikawa: Against Gabriel: On the Nonexistence of the World
6: Koji Tanaka: How Can Buddhists Prove That Non-Existent Things Do Not Exist?
7: Bryan Frances: How Ordinary Objects Fit into Reality
8: Eddy Keming Chen: The Cosmic Void
9: Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi: Ballot Ontology
10: Aaron Segal: Something out of Nothing: What Zeno Could Have Taught Parmenides
11: Tyron Goldschmidt and Sam Lebens: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: An Argument for Anti-Nihilism
12: Craig Warmke: Ostrich Actualism
13: Lorraine Juliano-Keller and John Keller: Saying Nothing and Thinking Nothing
14: Arif Ahmed: Why It Matters What Might Have Been
15: Jacob Ross: Explanatory Relevance and the Doing/Allowing Distinction
16: Carolina Sartorio: Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Omissions
17: Daniel Rubio: Death's Shadow Lightened
Index
Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt: Introduction
1: Sara Bernstein: Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being
2: Graham Priest: Nothingness and the Ground of Reality: Heidegger and Nishida
3: Roy Sorensen: Thales' Riddle of the Night
4: Fatema Amijee: Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental
5: Filippo Casati and Naoya Fujikawa: Against Gabriel: On the Nonexistence of the World
6: Koji Tanaka: How Can Buddhists Prove That Non-Existent Things Do Not Exist?
7: Bryan Frances: How Ordinary Objects Fit into Reality
8: Eddy Keming Chen: The Cosmic Void
9: Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi: Ballot Ontology
10: Aaron Segal: Something out of Nothing: What Zeno Could Have Taught Parmenides
11: Tyron Goldschmidt and Sam Lebens: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: An Argument for Anti-Nihilism
12: Craig Warmke: Ostrich Actualism
13: Lorraine Juliano-Keller and John Keller: Saying Nothing and Thinking Nothing
14: Arif Ahmed: Why It Matters What Might Have Been
15: Jacob Ross: Explanatory Relevance and the Doing/Allowing Distinction
16: Carolina Sartorio: Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Omissions
17: Daniel Rubio: Death's Shadow Lightened
Index