Graham Priest

Towards Non-Being

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Produktbeschreibung

Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either possible or impossible. This updated second edition includes ten new chapters which develop the ideas of the first edition, explore new areas, and reply to critics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780198783602
• ISBN-10: 0198783604
• Artikelnr.: 45636256

Autorenporträt

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 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

I. Semantics for Intentionality
1: Intentional Operators
2: Identity
3: Objects of Thought
4: Characterization and Descriptions
II. In Defence of Non-Being
5: On What There Isn't
6: Fiction
7: Mathematical Objects and Worlds
8: Multiple Denotation
III. Impossible Worlds and (other) Non-existent Objects
9: Possibility, Impossibility, and Conceivability
10: Lost in Translation
11: Phenomenological Pointing
12: Poor Non-Existent Objects
13: Other Issues from the First Edition
IV: Et Cetera
14: Creating Non-Existents
15: Neighbourhood Semantics
16: Self-Deception
17: Sein Language
18: How the Particular Quantified Become Existentially Loaded Behind Our Backs