Graham Priest

One

Being an Investigation Into the Unity of Reality and of Its Parts, Including the Singular Object Which Is Nothingness

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Produktbeschreibung

Graham Priest presents an original exploration of questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics¿unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality and nothingness¿and draws on Western and Asian philosophy as well as paraconsistent logic to offer a radically new treatment of unity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780199688258
• ISBN-10: 0199688257
• Artikelnr.: 39559170

Autorenporträt

Graham Priest was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. He has held professorial positions at a number of universities in Australia, the UK, and the USA. He is well known for his work on non-classical logic, and its application to metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: What One Needs to Know
Part I: Unity
1: Gluons and their Wicked Ways
2: Identity and Gluons
3: Form, Universals, and Instantiation
4: Being and Nothing
5: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Part II: In Plato's Trajectory
6: Enter Parmenides: Mereological Sums
7: Problems with the Forms--and their Solutions
8: The One--and the Others
9: In Search of Falsity
10: Perception, Intentionality, and Representation
Part III: Buddhist Themes
11: Absence of Self, and the Net of Indra
12: Embracing the Groundlessness of Things
13: The World, Language, and their Limits
14: Peace of Mind
15: Compassion
Bibliography
Index