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 Contributors Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt: 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