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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.
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
Show moreGraham 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.
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
Show morePreface: 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
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.
`A bracingly original treatise. The breadth and boldness of this
work, as well as its technical rigor and historical sensitivity are
very much to be admired.'
Michael Price, Mind
`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.'
Jason Turner, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
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