Zusatztext If you are looking for a book doing something genuinely innovative! doing it with rigor! clarity! and a deep sensitivity to the breadth of philosophical tradition! then One is one for you. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysicsincluding unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingnessand deploys the techniques of paraconsistent logic in order to offer a radically new treatment of unity. Priest brings together traditions of Western and Asian thought that are usually kept separate inacademic philosophy: he draws on ideas from Plato, Heidegger, and Nagarjuna, among other philosophers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

If you are looking for a book doing something genuinely innovative, doing it with rigor, clarity, and a deep sensitivity to the breadth of philosophical tradition, then One is one for you.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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