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Absence and nothing : the philosophy of what there is not /

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This book argues that nothing is not and explains how we can meaningfully speak about what is not.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mumford, Stephen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Nothing (Philosophy)
Presence (Philosophy)
Néant (Philosophie)
Présence (Philosophie)
presence.
Epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Soft Parmenideanism
  • 1.1. Nothing really matters
  • 1.2. first argument
  • 1.3. Soft ontological Parmenideanism
  • 1.4. Soft methodological Parmenideanism
  • 1.5. Is the cat out of the bag?
  • 1.6. way forward
  • 2. Negative Properties
  • 2.1. What would be a negative property?
  • 2.2. Arguments against negative properties
  • 2.3. For negative properties
  • 2.4. Summation and further work
  • 3. Nonentities
  • 3.1. Negative particulars
  • 3.2. Non-beings
  • 3.3. Limits, boundaries, edges, and stops
  • 3.4. Privations
  • 3.5. Omissions
  • 3.6. Negatives norms
  • 3.7. Negative epistemic states
  • 3.8. Logical and mathematical negatives
  • 4. Causation by Absence
  • 4.1. Negative causation
  • 4.2. More cases
  • 4.3. Creation ex nihilo
  • 4.4. Why causation by absence spells trouble
  • 4.5. Attempts to stop escalation
  • 4.6. Other ways of explaining causation by absence
  • 4.7. Explanation but not causal explanation
  • 4.8. Summary of conclusions
  • 5. Mere Possibilities
  • 5.1. Possible queues ahead
  • 5.2. Reification
  • 5.3. Fictionalism
  • 5.4. Grounding possibility in what there is
  • 5.5. Parmenidean possibility
  • 7. Perception of Absence
  • 7.1. Seeing what is not there
  • 7.2. Our subject matter
  • 7.3. Perceptual theories
  • 7.4. Cognitive theories
  • 7.5. Dennettian account
  • 7.6. Where this leaves us
  • 8. Empty Reference
  • 8.1. Can we talk about nothing?
  • 8.2. axiom of existence
  • 8.3. Proxy referents
  • 8.4. Aboutness
  • 8.5. Fictionalism
  • 8.6. Pretence
  • 8.7. Reference failure
  • 8.8. Aboutness again
  • 9. Negative Truth
  • 9.1. hippo not in the room
  • 9.2. Molnars problematic
  • 9.3. Solutions proper?
  • 9.4. Attempted solutions that reject at least one of (Mi)-(Miv)
  • 9.5. more recent solution
  • 9.6. Impasse?
  • 10. Negation and Denial
  • 10.1. Partial success?
  • 10.2. equivalence thesis
  • 10.3. separate functions of assertion and denial
  • 10.4. What are you denying?
  • 10.5. Can you deny a denial?
  • 10.6. Logic and complex denials
  • 10.7. Internal and external negations
  • 10.8. Conclusion
  • 11. Negative Belief
  • 11.1. final reckoning
  • 11.2. Inventories of being and non-being
  • 11.3. How to believe that something is not
  • 11.4. Types of negative belief
  • 11.5. Ontological Parmenideanism
  • 11.6. Final words.