Non-Being New Essays on the Metaphysics of Nonexistence

Sara Bernstein, Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame,Tyron Goldschmidt, formerly a Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester and Wake Forest University

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).

List of Contributors
Introduction, Sara Bernstein and Tyron Goldschmidt
1. Ontological Pluralism about Non-Being, Sara Bernstein
2. Nothingness and the Ground of Reality: Heidegger and Nishida, Graham Priest
3. Thales' Riddle of the Night, Roy Sorensen
4. Something from Nothing: Why Some Negative Existentials are Fundamental, Fatema Amijee
5. Against Gabriel: On the Nonexistence of the World, Filippo Casati and Naoya Fujikawa
6. How Can Buddhists Prove That Non-Existent Things Do Not Exist?, Koji Tanaka
7. How Ordinary Objects Fit into Reality, Bryan Frances
8. The Cosmic Void, Eddy Keming Chen
9. Ballot Ontology, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi
10. Something out of Nothing: What Zeno Could Have Taught Parmenides, Aaron Segal
11. Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit: An Argument for Anti-Nihilism, Tyron Goldschmidt and Sam Lebens
12. Ostrich Actualism, Craig Warmke
13. Saying Nothing and Thinking Nothing, Lorraine Juliano-Keller and John Keller
14. Why It Matters What Might Have Been, Arif Ahmed
15. Explanatory Relevance and the Doing/Allowing Distinction, Jacob Ross
16. Responsibility and the Metaphysics of Omissions, Carolina Sartorio
17. Death's Shadow Lightened, Daniel Rubio
Index