Markus Gabriel Against the World

According to Markus Gabriel, the world does not exist. This view—baptised metametaphysical nihilism—is exposited at length in his recent book Fields of Sense, which updates his earlier project of transcendental ontology. In this paper, I question whether meta-metaphysical nihilism is internally cohe...

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Main Author: Hill, James (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2017]
In: Sophia
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 471-481
RelBib Classification:VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Radical atheism
B Metaphysics of modality
B Martin Hägglund
B Markus Gabriel
B The world Ontology
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