Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality - Softcover

Priest, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199230552 ISBN 13: 9780199230556

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2007

Synopsis

Graham Priest presents a ground-breaking account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as "believes," "fears," "seeks," or "imagines." Towards Non-Being proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either possible or impossible. The book will be of central interest to anyone who is concerned with intentionality in the philosophy of mind or philosophy of language, the metaphysics of existence and identity, the philosophy of fiction, the philosophy of mathematics, or cognitive representation in AI.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews.

Review

`Review from previous edition Priest is a gifted writer, and the book percolates with interesting ideas, especially if one has never seriously wrestled with the topic of meinongianism ... a refreshingly bold attempt to overcome long-standing obstacles to unrestricted characterization of
non-existant objects. While philosophers of any area will profit from the book, there are some for whom, arguably. Priest's book is required reading: namely, metaphysicians, philosophers of language, and philosophical logicians.'
JC Beall, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199230552
• ISBN 13: 9780199230556
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208