In this book Terence Parsons revives the older tradition of taking such objects at face value. Using various modern techniques from logic and the philosophy of

Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his rea

This book defends the common sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. It then creates an argument against fictional rea

Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pe

Can we know what there is not? This book examines the historical development of the concept of the cognition of nonexistent objects in several major Buddhist ph