This second 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 2 through 7 of the original monograph, Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond, following on from the material of the first volume and explores its implications of the Noneist position. It begins with a further development of noneism in the direction of an ontologically neutral chronological logic and associated metaphysical issues concerning existence and change.

What follows includes: a detailed response to Quine's On What There Is; a defense against further objections to noneism; a detailed account of Meinong's own position; arguments in favour of noneism from common-sense; and a noneist analysis of fictional discourse.

We present these essays separately and provide additional scholarly commentaries from a range of philosophers including Fred Kroon, Maria Elisabeth Reicher-Marek and a previously unpublished commentary on noneism by J.J.C. Smart.

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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 l**ives of Richard Routley/Sylvan and Val Routley/Plumwood* (2014). He works in non-classical logic and environmental philosophy and in environmental conservation.

Inhalt
Editors' Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Some Personal Reflections Priest
Original Material
First Edition Front Matter [Abridged]
Acknowledgements
Chapter 2. Exploring Meinong's jungle and beyond. II. Existence and identity when times change
Chapter 3. On what there isn't
Chapter 4. Further objections to the theory of items disarmed
Chapter 5. Three Meinongs
Chapter 6. The theory of objects as commonsense
Chapter 7. The problems of fiction and fictions
Bibliography
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYSA critique of Meinongian semantics SmartRoutley's theory of fictions ReicherRoutley's second thoughts Kroon
Index