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 Essays. A critique of Meinongian semantics – Smart -- Routley’s theory of fictions – Reicher Routley’s second thoughts – Kroon -- Index.

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commentaries from a range of philosophers including Fred Kroon, Maria Elisabeth Reicher-Marek and a previously unpublished commentary on noneism by J.J.C. Smart.