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Intro -- Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Some Personal Reflections - Priest -- ORIGINAL MATERIAL -- First Edition Front Matter [Abridged] -- Acknowledgements -- Exploring Meinong's jungle and beyond. II. Existence and identity when times change -- Existence is existence now -- Enlarging on some of the chronological inadequacies of classical logic and its metaphysical basis, the Reference Theory -- Change and identity over time -- Heracleitean and Parmenidean problems for chronological logics -- Developing a nonmetrical neutral chronological logic -- Further corollaries of noneism for the philosophy of time -- Reality questions: the reality of time? -- Against the subjectivity of time: initial points -- The future is not real -- Alleged relativistic difficulties about the present time and as to tense -- Time, change and alternative worlds -- Limitations on statements about the future, especially as to naming objects and making predictions? -- Fatalism and alternative futures -- On what there isn't -- Further objections to the theory of items disarmed -- The theory of objects is inconsistent, absurd -- Carnap's objections, and Hinton's case against Meinongianism -- The attack on nonexistent objects, and alleged puzzles about what such objects could be -- The accusation of platonism -- being, types of existence, and the condition on existence -- Subsistence objections -- The defects of nonentities -- the problem of relations, and indeterminacy -- Nonentities are mere shadows, facades, verbal simulacra -- appeal to the formal mode -- Tooley's objection that the claim that there are nonexistent objects answering to objects of thought leads to contradictions -- Williams' argument that fatal difficulties beset Meinongian pure objects -- Further objections based on quantification and on features of truth-definitions.

This volume presents an acessible and engaging collection of essays by prominent Australasian philosophers, covering a wide array of topics and drawn from a series of public lectures on Philosophy in Australia and Zealand convened over a period of four years. The essays explore the rich philosophical past of Australasia, while also illustrating why philosophy in Australasia ranks highly in influence and esteem