Name: Everything and Nothing
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Author: Markus Gabriel
ISBN: 9781509537464

Type

Physical Book

Author

Markus Gabriel

Graham Priest

Publisher

Polity Press

Language

English

Pages

140

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781509537464

Edition No.

Synopsis "Everything and Nothing"

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.

Markus Gabriel

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Markus Gabriel is a German philosopher and professor at the University of Bonn by the age of 28. He specialized in metaphysics, epistemology, and post-Kantian philosophy. Globally recognized, he has received numerous awards at universities in various countries where he is also often a guest professor.

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