One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness

Author:   Graham Priest (City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   272
Publication Date:   02 June 2016
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One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness


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Author:   Graham Priest (City University of New York)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780198776949


ISBN 10:   0198776942
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   02 June 2016
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Table of Contents

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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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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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.

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