2021-03-09
19 分钟What is the status of something that is an absence, like a hole? Suki Finn explores the metaphysics of nothing in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Suki is also the editor of a new book based on Philosophy Bites interviews with women philosophers selected from our archive Women of Ideas, to be published by Oxford University Press in April.
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Pay attention to the gaps between my words.
Do these gaps exist?
Are they a something, or are these gaps a nothing?
Sookie Finn is the editor of a new collection of philosophy bites, interviews with women.
It's published by OUP and is called women of ideas.
The book is definitely a something, a rather excellent something, if I may say so.
But here is Suki on the metaphysics of nothing.
Suki Finn, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thanks.
The topic we're going to focus on today is nothing that seems almost impossible to do.
What do you mean by nothing?
Well, it's not that I'm going to sit here and say literally nothing, no words, because this would be a very short interview.
But there's another sense in which we can talk about nothing by thinking of it as a noun.