Everything and Nothing

Graham Priest,Markus Gabriel

• Éditeur: Polity
• Année: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781509537488
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Philosophy
• Sous-sujet: Philosophy History & Theory

Is it possible for reality as a whole to be part of itself? Can the world appear within itself without thereby undermining the consistency of our thought and knowledge-claims concerning more local matters of fact?

This is a question on which Markus Gabriel and Graham Priest disagree. Gabriel argues that the world cannot exist precisely because it is understood to be an absolutely totality. Priest responds by developing a special form of mereology according to which reality is a single all-encompassing whole, everything, which counts itself among its denizens. Their disagreement results in a debate about everything and nothing: Gabriel argues that we experience nothingness once we overcome our urge to contain reality in an all-encompassing thought, whereas Priest develops an account of nothing according to which it is the ground of absolutely everything.

A debate about everything and nothing, but also a reflection on the very possibility of metaphysics.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Introduction
• I Essays
• II Bonn Discussions
• III Postscript
• References and Bibliography
• Index
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