Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality

Priest, Graham

ISBN 10: 0199230552 / ISBN 13: 9780199230556

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

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8vo, 190 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199230552
• ISBN 13: 9780199230556
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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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 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.