Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Ontological pluralism about non-being / Sara Bernstein -- Nothingness and the ground of reality: Heidegger and Nishida / Graham Priest -- Thales' riddle of the night / Roy Sorensen -- Something from nothing: why some negative existentials are fundamental / Fatema Amijee -- Against Gabriel: on the non0existence of the world / Filippo Casati, Naoya Fujikawa -- How can Buddhists prove that non-existent things do not exist? / Koji Tanaka -- How ordinary objects fit into reality / Bryan Frances -- The cosmic void / Eddy Keming Chen -- Ballot ontology / Roberto Casati, Achille C. Varzi -- Something out of nothing: what Zeno could have taught Parmenides / Aaron Segal -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: an argument for anti-nihilism / Tyron Goldschmidt, Samuel Lebens -- Ostrich actualism / Craig Warmke -- Saying nothing and thinking nothing / John A. Keller, Lorraine Juliano Keller -- Why it matters what might have been / Arif Ahmed -- Explanatory relevance and the doing/allowing distinction / Jacob Ross -- Responsibility and the metaphysics of omissions / Carolina Sartorio -- Death's shadow lightened / Daniel Rubio |
Summary |
"We are surrounded by things that exist, like chairs, tables, phones, and people. But we are also surrounded by things that don't exist, like holes, shadows, omissions, and negative properties. We read stories of nonexistent unicorns and magical creatures. We reason about scenarios that don't exist, from the small ('what if I'd have studied an hour longer?') to the large ('what if World War II hadn't occurred?'). We refer to nonexistents ('that paper doesn't exist yet'). And we hold people morally responsible for things that they don't do ('you should have rescued the rabbit!'). Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume of new essays covers some of the trickiest questions about non-being and nonexistence--from Could have been nothing at all? to What are holes?--alongside answers from diverse philosophical traditions. The essays explore analytic, continental, Buddhist and Jewish philosophical perspectives, and range from metaphysics to ethics, from philosophy of science to philosophy of language, and beyond"--Publisher's description |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on August 6, 2021) |
Subject |
Nonexistent objects (Philosophy)
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Nonbeing.
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Nonbeing
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Nonexistent objects (Philosophy)
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bernstein, Sara (Philosopher), editor.
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Goldschmidt, Tyron, 1982- editor.
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ISBN |
9780192585165 |
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0192585169 |
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9780191881381 |
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0191881384 |
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