Beyond the Limits of Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925405-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Priest, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction

- The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy

- 2: The limits of iteration

- 3: The limits of cognition

- 4: The limits of conception

- The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel

- 6: Kant's antinomies

- 7: Hegel's infinities

- Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference

- 9: Vicious circles

- 10: Parameterization

- 11: Sets and classes

- Language and its limits

- 13: Translation, reference, and truth

- 14: Consciousness, rules, and différance

- Post terminum

- 16: Nagarjuna and the limits of thought

- 17: Further reflections

- Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.