Suki Finn on the Metaphysics of Nothing

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	This is Philosophy Bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds.
0:07.9	This edition of Philosophy Bites is supported by St John's College.
0:11.6	With campuses in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Annapolis, Maryland, the Graduate Institute at St John's
0:17.2	College is a home for students seeking a lifelong commitment to thoughtful, collaborative
0:22.2	inquiry into fundamental human questions.
0:25.8	The Council are the most influential writers and thinkers from the West or the East in this
0:30.8	vibrant community of learning.
0:33.3	More at SJC.edu-podcast.
0:38.5	That's SJC.edu-podcast.
0:45.8	Pay attention to the gaps between my words.
0:51.3	Do these gaps exist?
0:53.0	Are they a something?
0:54.8	Or are these gaps and nothing?
0:57.7	Suki Finn is the editor of a new collection of Philosophy Bites interviews with women.
1:03.2	It's published by OUP and is called Women of Ideas.
1:07.0	The book is definitely a something, a rather excellent something, if I may say so.
1:12.1	But here is Suki on the metaphysics of nothing.
1:15.0	Suki Finn, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
1:17.4	Thanks.
1:18.5	The topic we're going to focus on today is nothing.
1:22.1	That seems almost impossible to do.
1:25.6	What do you mean by nothing?
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