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Existence


Selected Readings:


Alston, William P. “Ontological Commitment,” in Philosophical Studies 9, 1958: 8-17.


Butchvarov, Panayot. Being Qua Being. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.


Chisholm, Roderick M. “Beyond Being and Nonbeing,” in Philosophical Studies 24, 1973: 245-57.


Evans, Gareth. The Varieties of Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982.


Moore, G.E. “Is Existence a Predicate?” reprinted in Philosophical Papers. London: Allen and Unwin, 1959.


Moreland, J.P & Craig, William Lane. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2003. See especially the discussion p. 187-193.


Quine, W.V. “On What There Is” in Review of Metaphysics 2/1 September, 1948.

________. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969, pp. 26-28.


Williams, C.J.F. What is Existence? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.