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Non-being : new essays on the metaphysics of non-existence / edited by Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonexistent objects (Philosophy).
- Existentialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- New essays on the metaphysics of non-existenc
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-188138-4
- 0-19-258516-9
- OCLC:
- 1246576139
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