Table of Contents

Preface: What One Needs to Know
Part I: Unity
1: Gluons and their Wicked Ways
2: Identity and Gluons
3: Form, Universals, and Instantiation
4: Being and Nothing
5: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Part II: In Plato's Trajectory
6: Enter Parmenides: Mereological Sums
7: Problems with the Forms--and their Solutions
8: The One--and the Others
9: In Search of Falsity
10: Perception, Intentionality, and Representation
Part III: Buddhist Themes
11: Absence of Self, and the Net of Indra
12: Embracing the Groundlessness of Things
13: The World, Language, and their Limits
14: Peace of Mind
15: Compassion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Graham Priest was 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.

Reviews

`A bracingly original treatise. The breadth and boldness of this work, as well as its technical rigor and historical sensitivity are very much to be admired.'
Michael Price, Mind
`If you are looking for a book doing something genuinely innovative, doing it with rigor, clarity, and a deep sensitivity to the breadth of philosophical tradition, then One is one for you.'
Jason Turner, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online