Graham Priest presents an original exploration of questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics¿unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality and nothingness¿and draws on Western and Asian philosophy as well as paraconsistent logic to offer a radically new treatment of unity.

• 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

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.