Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Nothingness" by Roy Sorensen

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Armstrong, David, 1989, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2004, Truth and Truthmakers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Baldwin, Thomas, 1996, “There might be nothing”, Analysis, 56: 231–38. (Scholar)
Beebee, Helen, 2004, “Causing and Nothingness”, in Causation and Counterfactuals, John Collins, Ned Hall, and L. A. Paul (eds.), Cambridge: MIT Press, 291–308. (Scholar)
Bennett, Jonathan, 1980, “Spinoza’s Vacuum Argument”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Volume 5), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
Bergson, Henri, 1944, Creative Evolution, trans. A. Mitchell, New York: The Modern Library. (Scholar)
Brenner, Andrew, 2016, “What do we mean when we ask ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’”, Erkenntnis, 81: 1305–1322. (Scholar)
Carlson, Erik and Erik J. Olsson, 2001, “The Presumption of Nothingness”, Ratio, 14: 203–221. (Scholar)
Carnap, Rudolf, 1932, “The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language,” trans. Arthur Pap, in A. J. Ayer (ed.), Logical Positivism, New York: The Free Press, 60–81. Originally published in German in Erkenntnis, Volume 2. (Scholar)
–––, 1950, Logical Foundations of Probability, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
Carroll, John W., 1994, Laws of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Casati, Filippo & Naoya Fujikawa, 2015, “Better Than Zilch?” Logic and Logical Philosophy 24(2): 255–264. (Scholar)
Chen, Ellen Marie, 1969, “Nothingness and the mother principle in early Chinese Taoism”, International Philosophical Quarterly, 9: 391–405. (Scholar)
Coggins, Geraldine, 2010, Could There Have Been Nothing? Against Metaphysical Nihilism, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Dallmayr, Fred, 1992, “Nothingness and Śūnyatā: A Comparison of Heidegger and Nishitani”, Philosophy East and West, 42/1: 37–48. doi:10.2307/1399690 (Scholar)
Dawkins, Richard, 1998, Unweaving the Rainbow Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (Scholar)
Efird, D. and Stoneham, T., 2005, “The Subtraction Argument for Metaphysical Nihilism”, Journal of Philosophy, 102: 303–325. (Scholar)
–––, 2009, “Is Metaphysical Nihilism Interesting?”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 90(2): 210–231. (Scholar)
Epstein, Lewis C., 1983, Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics, San Francisco: Insight Press. (Scholar)
Gale, Richard, 1976, Negation and Non-Being, American Philosophical Quarterly (Monograph Series No. 10). (Scholar)
Gardner, Martin, 1977, Mathematical Magic Show, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. (Scholar)
Grant, E., 1981, Much ado about Nothing. Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Gray, Jeffrey Alan, 1987, The Psychology of Fear and Stress, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1992, The Existence of the World, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Guthrie, W. K. C., 1965, A History of Greek Philosophy (Volume 2), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow, 2010, The Grand Design, New York: Bantam Books. (Scholar)
Heidegger, Martin, 1959, Introduction to Metaphysics, Trans. R. Manheim. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1962, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson, New York: Harper & Row. (Scholar)
Heil, John, 2013, “Contingency”, in The Puzzle of Existence, Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), New York: Routledge, 167–181. (Scholar)
Heylen, Jan, 2017, “Why is there something rather than nothing? A logical investigation”, Erkenntnis, 82: 531–559. (Scholar)
Hugo, Victor, 1862, Les Misérables, translated by Charles Wilbour, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
James, William 1882, “On Some Hegelisms”, Mind, 7: 186–208. (Scholar)
–––, 1911, Some Problems of Philosophy New York: Longmans, Green and Co. (Scholar)
Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, 2021, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, New York: Little Brown. (Scholar)
Kierkegaard, Søren (1944) The Concept of Dread translated by Walter Lowie, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Kotzen, Matthew, 2013, “The Probabilistic Explanation of Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing”, in The Puzzle of Existence, Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), New York: Routledge, 215–234. (Scholar)
Krauss, Lawrence M., 2012, A Universe from Nothing, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
Kripke, Saul, 1980, Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Kuhn, Thomas, 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: Chicago University Press. (Scholar)
Lambert, Karel, 2003, Free Logic, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Leeming, Joseph, 1953, Riddles, Riddles, Riddles, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc. (Scholar)
Leslie, John and Robert Lawrence Kuhn, 2013, The Mystery of Existence, Oxford: Wiley & Sons. (Scholar)
Lewis, David, 2004, “Void and Object”, in Causation and Counterfactuals, John Collins, Ned Hall, and L. A. Paul (eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 277–290. (Scholar)
–––, 1986, On the Plurality of Worlds, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Lewis, David and Stephanie Lewis, 1983, “Holes”, in David Lewis, Philosophical Papers, vol. 1 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3–9. (Scholar)
Liu, JeeLoo, 2014, “Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism”, in Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, JeeLoo Liu and Douglas Berger (eds.), London: Routledge Press, 181–196. (Scholar)
Lowe, E. J., 1996, “Why is There Anything at All?”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 70: 111–120. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “Metaphysical Nihilism Revisited”, in The Puzzle of Existence, Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), New York: Routledge, 182–196. (Scholar)
–––, 2002, “Metaphysical nihilism and the subtraction argument”, Analysis, 62: 62–73. (Scholar)
Maddy, Penelope, 1990, Realism in Mathematics, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Maitzen, Stephen, 2012, “Stop Asking ‘Why There’s Anything’”, Erkenntnis, 77: 51–63. (Scholar)
Martin, Richard M., 1965, “Of Time and the Null Individual”, Journal of Philosophy, 62(24): 723–736. (Scholar)
McDaniel, Kris, 2013, “Ontological Pluralism, the Gradation of Being, and the Question ‘Why is there Something Rather Than Nothing?’”, in The Puzzle of Existence, Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), New York: Routledge, 272–286. (Scholar)
Mumford, Stephen 2021, Absence and Nothing: the Philosophy of What There is Not Clarendon: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Munitz, M. K., 1965, The Mystery of Existence, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. (Scholar)
Nozick, Robert, 1981, Philosophical Explanations Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Parfit, Derek, 1998, “The Puzzle of Reality: Why does the Universe Exist?”, in Metaphysics: The Big Questions, ed. Peter Van Inwagen and D. W. Zimmerman, Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 418–426. (Scholar)
Parsons, Terence, 1980, Nonexistent Objects, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
Pascal, Blaise, 1669, Pensées, trans. W. F. Trotter, The Harvard Classics, Volume XCVIII, Part 1, New York: P. F. Collier & Sons, 1909–14. (Scholar)
Paseau, Alexander, 2003, “Why the subtraction argument does not add up”, Analysis, 62: 73–75. (Scholar)
Priest, Graham, 2014, One: Being an Investigation Into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, Including the Singular Object Which is Nothingness, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Quine, W. V. O., 1953a, “On What There Is”, From a Logical Point of View, New York: Harper & Row. (Scholar)
–––, 1953b, “Meaning and Existential Inference”, From a Logical Point of View, New York: Harper & Row. (Scholar)
–––, 1954, “Quantification and the Empty Domain”, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 19(3): 177–179. (Scholar)
–––, 1959, Methods of Logic, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Scholar)
Rayo, A., 2020, “Absolute Generality”, in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, ed. Ricki Bliss and J. T. Miller, London and New York: Routledge, Taylor, and Francis, pp. 130–142. (Scholar)
Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo, 1997, “There might be nothing: the subtraction argument improved”, Analysis, 57(3): 159–166. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, “The Subtraction Arguments for Metaphysical Nihilism: Compared and Defended”, in The Puzzle of Existence, Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.), New York: Routledge, 197–214. (Scholar)
Rowe, William, 1975, The Cosmological Argument, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Rundle, Bede, 2004, Why There is Something Rather than Nothing?, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Russell, Bertrand, 1919, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, London: George Allen and Unwin. (Scholar)
–––, 1985, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. (Scholar)
Sartre, Jean Paul, 1969, Being and Nothingness, trans. H. E. Barnes, New York: Washington Square Press. (Scholar)
Schmitt, Charles, 1967, “Experimental Evidence for and Against a Void: the Sixteenth-Century Arguments”, Isis, 58: 352–366. (Scholar)
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1819, The World as Will and Representation (Volume 2), E. F. J. Payne (trans.), Colorado: The Falcon Wing Press, 1958. (Scholar)
Sgaravatti, Daniele & Giuseppe Spolaore, 2018, “Out of Nothing”, Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 7(2): 132–138. doi:10.1002/tht3.274 (Scholar)
Sorensen, Roy, 2008, Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2022, Nothing: A Philosophical History, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Sperry-Taylor, Ashton T., 2019, “Reassessing Equilibrium Explanations: When are They Causal Explanations?”, Synthese 198(6): 5577–5598. (Scholar)
Van Fraassen, Bas, 1980, The Scientific Image, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Van Inwagen, Peter, 1996. “Why Is There Anything at All?”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 70: 95–110. (Scholar)
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Wilczek, Frank, 1980, “The Cosmic Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter” Scientific American, 243(6): 82–90. (Scholar)
Williams, C. J. F., 1984, “The Ontological Disproof of the Vacuum”, Philosophy, 59: 382–384. (Scholar)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1921, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness (trans.), New York: Humanities Press, originally published in 1961. (Scholar)

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