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Why the World does not exist

Studium Generale | Lecture

Hardly any assumption looks more natural and obvious than the idea that there is an all-encompassing entity or domain, for which we have a number of names: the world, reality, the universe or nature etc. 

In this lecture, however, Markus Gabriel will first argue that this idea is fundamentally flawed and actually false.

This has many consequences, one of which being that we no longer need to search for a principle or theory that somehow integrates mind into nature or reduces the existence of so-called “fictional characters” (like unicorns, witches and Sherlock Holmes) to our mental states. 

The theory Gabriel will propose as a remedy against the idea that the world exists, consists of a radical ontological pluralism, i.e. the idea that there is an indefinite number of fields of sense. 

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