• DOI:10.1080/00048400701343150
Corpus ID: 7788506

From nihilism to monism

@article{Schaffer2007FromNT,
  title={From nihilism to monism},
  author={J. Schaffer},
  journal={Australasian Journal of Philosophy},
  year={2007},
  volume={85},
  pages={175 - 191}
}

• J. Schaffer
• Published 2007
• Philosophy
• Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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Mereological nihilism is the view that all concrete objects are simple. Existence monism is the view that the only concrete object is one big simple: the world. I will argue that nihilism culminates in monism. The nihilist demands the simplest sufficient ontology, and the monist delivers it. Nothing is cheaper and commoner in philosophy than monism; what, unhappily, is still rare, is an attempt to defend it, and critically to establish its assumptions. [Schiller 1897: 62]