The Dark Side of Being: On What There is Not
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Filippo Casati - Lehigh University - email
- Filippo Costantini - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
In contrast to Quine’s (meta-)ontology and his preference for desert landscapes, recent years have seen a renewed interest in ‘non-being’: non-existent entities, mere possibilia, negative properties, negative facts, absences, nothingness, voids, holes, etc. Interest in the category of non-being is not limited to ontology but has also found applications in the philosophy of mind, particularly regarding the role intentionality plays in relation to non-entities and the problem of perceiving absences. Additionally, it has influenced the philosophy of art, especially in discussions about absence art – i.e., art that features absences as aesthetic objects. This issue of JoLMA highlights the richness of the topic by presenting eight fresh papers that range from metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, to philosophy of language, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind.
Keywords Absence Causation • Cognitivism • Nothingness • Reported speech • absence • (Modal) noneism • Ostensive definition • absolute nothingness • Empty quotation • Being • Pictorial abscences • Lack • Radical perceptualism • Mixed quotation • Verbs of absence • Moderate perceptualism • mixed-media • Non-Being • Empty string • Characterization Principle • Fictional objects • nonidentity • Non-existent objects • Millares • Informalism • Aristotle’s homonymy • negative nothingness • Nuclear properties • Eliminativist error theories • Nāgārjuna • Absence • Metacognitivism • Kant’s table of nothing • Perception of absences • Metaphysical Grounding • Be missing • Semantics • Adorno
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/02 | Published Dec. 11, 2024 | Language en
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