Everything and nothing
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Everything and nothing
Polity, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-197) and index
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Description
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 of Contents
Preface
Introduction Laureano Ralon
I Essays
1 Everything and Nothing Graham Priest
2 Is There Such a Thing as Everything? Markus Gabriel
3 Some Thoughts on Everything Graham Priest
4 Some Thoughts on "Some Thoughts on Everything" (Which Are not About Everything) Markus Gabriel
II Bonn Discussions
5 Existence
6 Intentionality
7 Non-Wellfoundedness
8 Everything, Nonsense, and Wittgenstein
9 Nothingness
III Postscript Gregory Moss
10 Transcending Everything
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