Graham Priest presents an expanded edition of his exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Embracing contradiction and challenging traditional logic, he engages with issues across philosophical borders, from the historical to the modern, Eastern to Western, continental to analytic.

`Review from previous edition This book is a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher...' Alan Weir, Philosophical Quarterly `clever, resourceful, undogmatic, unpretentious, often sensible and usually clear over a wide range of issues' Timothy Williamson, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science `highly entertaining and provocative... an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude...' A. W. Moore, Times Literary Supplement `Graham Priest combines a deep philosophical appreciation of fundamental logical issues with a marvelously informed reading of both the history of philosophy and contemporary texts. His work is ambitious and insightful... The book is an ambitious attempt to do important philosophical work across major borders - borders of the formal and philosophical, the historical and the contemporary, the Analytical and the Continental traditions. In [this] regard it is a resounding success.' Patrick Grim, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

Brings together analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western thought The magnum opus of one of Australia's best living philosophers New and expanded Oxford edition, following the original Cambridge version (1995) Ecstatically reviewed in the philosophical press Author of the successful Very Short Introduction to Logic

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and also Arche Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of In Contradiction (1987), Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001), and the editor of several collections on logic and related subjects. He is also the author of a successful book on Logic in the Very Short Introduction series.

Brings together analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western thought The magnum opus of one of Australia's best living philosophers New and expanded Oxford edition, following the original Cambridge version (1995) Ecstatically reviewed in the philosophical press Author of the successful Very Short Introduction to Logic