Noneist Explorations II, 1st ed. 2020 The Sylvan Jungle - Volume 3 Synthese Library Series, Vol. 432

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.

Richard Routley/Sylvan (1935-1996), a New Zealand born philosopher, who was a research fellow at the Australian National University at the time of his death, rose to prominence for his work in the development of Relevance Logic, Deep Ecology and a revised and improved Meinongian ontology known as noneism.   An iconoclastic figure in Australian philosophy, Routley/Sylvan s legacy thrives in the views of students and colleagues worldwide.

Dominic Hyde is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of Queensland whose works include: Vagueness, Logic and Ontology (2008), and Eco-Logical Lives: the philosophical lives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley/Plumwood (2014). He works in non-classical logic and environmental philosophy and in environmental conservation.