The Paradox at the Limit of Everything [TALK ON NOTHING]

2025/6/13 10:00-12:00 A1618

腾讯会议：521-856-973 会议密码：250613

Graham Priest

主持人：王文方

Beyond everything is nothing(ness). But nothing appears to be a paradoxical object, both something and nothing. In this talk I will look at the paradox of nothing more closely, defining nothing in mereological terms, and proving that it is a dialetheic object. The Inclosure Scheme is a scheme into which all the standard paradoxes of self-reference fit. The paradox of nothing is not a paradox of self-reference, but I will also show that it fits the Inclosure Schema, and so has the same structure. As we will see, the paradox of nothing is a paradox at the limit of everything.

报告人简介：Graham Priest has held chairs of philosophy in Australia, the UK, and the United States, as well as many visiting positions at universities in countries in Europe and Asia. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, and International Research Fellow at the Ruhr University of Bochum. He is known for his work on non-classical logic, particularly in connection with dialetheism, on metaphysics, on the history of philosophy, and on Buddhist philosophy.  He has published over 350 papers in nearly every major logic and philosophy journal. His books include: In Contradiction, Beyond the Limits of Thought, Introduction to Non-Classical Logic, Towards Non-Being, One, The Fifth Corner of Four and Capitalism—its Nature and its Replacement, and Mathematical Pluralism. For further details, see grahampriest.net.