Graham Priest presents an exploration of the development of Buddhist metaphysics, which is viewed through the lens of the catuskoti. In its earliest and simplest form this is a logical/metaphysical principle which says that every claim is true, false, both, or neither; but Priest shows how the principle itself evolves as the metaphysics develops.

• Before the Beginning


• 0: Preface


• Part I: Early India


• 1: General Background


• 2: Quintum Non Datur


• 3: Well-Founded Metaphysics


• Part II: Later India


• 4: Emptiness


• 5: The Fifth Corner


• 6: Paradox and Ineffability


• Part III: East Asia


• 7: And So On


• 8: The Golden Lion


• 9: Enlightenment


• After the End


• 10: A Methodological Coda

Graham Priest has held chairs in philosophy in Australia, the UK, and the USA, as well as visiting appointments in a number of other countries, including Germany and Japan. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on non-classical logic, particularly in connection with dialetheism, on the history of philosophy, and on Buddhist philosophy. He has published articles in nearly every major philosophy and logic journal, and is the author of seven books, mostly with Oxford University Press.