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Non-being : new essays on the metaphysics of non-existence / edited by Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt.

Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Goldschmidt, Tyron, 1982- editor.
Bernstein, Sara (Philosopher), editor.
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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