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

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 philosophical questions concerningthe one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics--including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and nothingness--and 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 in academic philosophy: he draws on ideas from Plato, Heidegger, and Nagarjuna, among other philosophers.Preface: What One Needs to KnowPart I: Unity1. Gluons and their Wicked Ways2. Identity and Gluons3. Form, Universals, and Instantiation4. Being and Nothing5. A Case of Mistaken IdentityPart II: In Plato's Trajectory6. Enter Parmenides: Mereological Sums7. Problems with the Forms--and their Solutions8. The One--and the Others9. In Search of Falsity10. Perception, Intentionality, and RepresentationPart III: Buddhist Themes11. Absence of Self, and the Net of Indra12. Embracing the Groundlessness of Things13. The World, Language, and their Limits14. Peace of Mind15. CompassionBibliographyIndexGraham Priestwas 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. If you are looking for a book doing something genuinely innovative, doing it with rigor, clarity, and a l#2