Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either possible or impossible. This updated second edition includes ten new chapters which develop the ideas of the first edition, explore new areas, and reply to critics.

• I. Semantics for Intentionality


• 1: Intentional Operators


• 2: Identity


• 3: Objects of Thought


• 4: Characterization and Descriptions


• II. In Defence of Non-Being


• 5: On What There Isn't


• 6: Fiction


• 7: Mathematical Objects and Worlds


• 8: Multiple Denotation


• III. Impossible Worlds and (other) Non-existent Objects


• 9: Possibility, Impossibility, and Conceivability


• 10: Lost in Translation


• 11: Phenomenological Pointing


• 12: Poor Non-Existent Objects


• 13: Other Issues from the First Edition


• IV: Et Cetera


• 14: Creating Non-Existents


• 15: Neighbourhood Semantics


• 16: Self-Deception


• 17: Sein Language


• 18: How the Particular Quantified Become Existentially Loaded Behind Our Backs

Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 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.