Noneist Explorations I

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 7 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; and a noneist analysis of fictional discourse.

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commentaries from a range of philosophers including Fred Kroon, Maria Elisabeth Reicher-Marek and a previously unpublished commentary on noneism by J. J. C. Smart.

Editors Preface. - Contributors. - Introduction: Some Personal Reflections Priest. - Original Material. First Edition Front Matter [Abridged]. - Acknowledgements. - Chapter 2. Exploring Meinong s jungle and beyond. II. Existence and identity when times change. - Chapter 3. On what there isn t. - Chapter 4. Further objections to the theory of items disarmed. - Chapter 5. Three Meinongs. - Chapter 6. The theory of objects as commonsense. - Chapter 7. The problems of fiction and fictions. - Bibliography. - Supplementary Essays. A critique of Meinongian semantics Smart. - Routley s theory of fictions Reicher Routley s second thoughts Kroon. - Index.