Non-Being

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).

As a whole, the collection provides a useful overview of recent philosophical work on nonexistence; it will particularly interest analytic philosophers.

• List of ContributorsSara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt: Introduction1: Sara Bernstein: Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being2: Graham Priest: Nothingness and the Ground of Reality: Heidegger and Nishida3: Roy Sorensen: Thales' Riddle of the Night4: Fatema Amijee: Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental5: Filippo Casati and Naoya Fujikawa: Against Gabriel: On the Nonexistence of the World6: Koji Tanaka: How Can Buddhists Prove That Non-Existent Things Do Not Exist?7: Bryan Frances: How Ordinary Objects Fit into Reality8: Eddy Keming Chen: The Cosmic Void9: Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi: Ballot Ontology10: Aaron Segal: Something out of Nothing: What Zeno Could Have Taught Parmenides11: Tyron Goldschmidt and Sam Lebens: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: An Argument for Anti-Nihilism12: Craig Warmke: Ostrich Actualism13: Lorraine Juliano-Keller and John Keller: Saying Nothing and Thinking Nothing14: Arif Ahmed: Why It Matters What Might Have Been15: Jacob Ross: Explanatory Relevance and the Doing/Allowing Distinction16: Carolina Sartorio: Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Omissions17: Daniel Rubio: Death's Shadow LightenedIndex