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.
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.
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
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
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