Noneist Explorations II

This third 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 8 to 12 of the original monograph, Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond, following on from the material of the first two volumes and further explores aspects and implications of the Noneist position. It begins with a discussion of the value of nonexistent objects championed by noneism, especially as regards theories of perception, universals, value theory and a commonsense account of belief. It continues with: a detailed analysis of what it means to exist; the importance of nonexistent objects to adequate accounts of mathematics and the theoretical sciences; and an account of noneisms' distinctiveness from other accounts of nonexistent objects. These essays are supplemented with scholarly essays from Naoya Fujikawa, and Maureen Eckert and Charlie Donahue.

Editors Preface. - Contributors. - Introduction Mortensen. - Acknowledgements. - Chapter 8. The importance of not existing. - Chapter 9. The meaning of existence. - Chapter 10. The importance of nonexistent objects and of intensionality in mathematics and the theoretical sciences. - Chapter 11. Rudiments of noneist philosophies of mathematics and science. - Chapter 12. How the theory elaborated differs from other theories of objects in its theses and objectives. - Bibliography. - Supplementary Essays: Hallucination as perceiving nonexistent objects Fujikawa. - Towards a feminist logic Eckert and Donahue. - Index.