Gabriel, Markus y Priest, Graham (2024), Todo y Nada. Segovia: Materia Oscura, 278 pp. (tapa rústica), ISBN: 978-8412703412

Abstract

In Everything and Nothing, Markus Gabriel and Graham Priest, two of the leading figures in contemporary schools of thought such as new realism and analytical philosophy respectively, debate the two notions that appear in the title: 'everything and nothing'. Interwoven with and arising from these two master notions, we find others of enormous importance such as existence, intentionality and the role of mereology. Throughout this series of "delayed" and live debates, the authors delve deeper into these topics and outline their own positions and differences with greater precision. Markus Gabriel's basic proposal is based on his ontology of fields of meaning, in which reality is a set of fields of meaning isolated from each other in such a way that they cannot form part of the maximum set that is the whole, since in that case the whole would be a part of itself, and Graham Priest's dialectical proposal, in which contradictions are not merely the nullity of an argument, but have a certain positivity of their own, together with the idea that nothingness is the foundation of reality, as seen in his first essay.