The End of Existence

Membership and Metaphysics
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-34376-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1998, this volume aims to counter the paradoxes of causality and induction as presented by empirical scepticism, though the work is not a dry critique of others' efforts in this area. In order to address these issues, the author presents his instinctive belief in the interconnectedness of the world's elements from a conceptual point of view. The work is not epistemological, but metaphysical and logical, and the assumptions are made in these areas. The principal concept is "membership", which appears in logic, language and metaphysics. Truth, existence and reference are shown to be forms of membership and, as such, invalid concepts. The famous paradoxes stretch from that of the liar to Russell's result from this misconception, which is responsible for the paradoxes of causality and induction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rampersad, Garvin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Necessary Connection: the ‘World’ Argument. 2. Paradoxes of Existence. 3. The Existential Fallacy. 4. The Positive Exposition. 5. The Descriptive World.

Über Autor(innen)

Garvin Rampersad was born in Trinidad, West Indies, and came to the UK in 1961 with his mother, siblings and grandmother. He began a degree at Keele University but did not complete it. Rampersad began writing The End of Existence whilst in prison. The book was to take 20 years to complete. First published in 1998, it was reissued as Routledge Revival in 2020. The material which went on to become his second book, Mental Fight, which describes the completion of The End of Existence, won the Koestler Award in 2008.  Garvin Rampersad holds a degree in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, University of London.