Noneist Explorations I: The Sylvan Jungle - Volume 2

by Richard Routley, Dominic Hyde (Editor), Ross Brady (Contributor)

This second volume continues Richard Routley's explorations of an improved Meinongian account of non-referring and intensional discourse (including joint work with Val Routley, later Val Plumwood). It focuses on the essays 2 through 12 of the original monograph, Exploring Meinong s Jungle and Beyond, following on from the material of the first volume and explores its implications of the Noneist position. It begins with a further development of noneism in the direction of an ontologically neutral chronological logic and associated metaphysical issues concerning existence and change.

What follows includes: a detailed response to Quine's On What There Is; a defense against further objections to noneism; a detailed account of Meinong's own position; arguments in favour of noneism from common-sense; a noneist analysis of fictional discourse; an account of the importance of nonexistent objects for mathematics and the theoretical sciences; and an account of its distinctiveness from other accounts of nonexistent objects.

We present these essays separately and provide additional scholarly commentaries from a range of philosophers including Filippo Cassati, Charlie Donahue and Maureen Eckert, Fred Kroon, Maria Elisabeth Reicher-Marek and a previously unpublished commentary on noneism by J.J.C. Smart.

443 pages, Hardcover

Published September 11, 2019