Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, from metaphysics to ethics and beyond: the contributors offer answers from diverse philosophical perspectives, drawing on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions.
Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, from metaphysics to ethics and beyond: the contributors offer answers from diverse philosophical perspectives, drawing on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Contributors * 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
* List of Contributors * 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
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