Beyond the limits of thought / Graham Priest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priest, Graham, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Limit (Logic).

Concepts.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy

1. limits of expression

2. limits of iteration

3. limits of cognition

4. limits of conception

pt. 2. limits of thought in Kant and Hegel

5. Noumena and the categories

6. Kant's antinomies

7. Hegel's infinities

pt. 3. Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference

8. Absolute infinity

9. Vicious circles

10. Parameterisation

11. Sets and classes

pt. 4. Language and its limits

12. unity of thought

13. Translation, reference, and truth

14. Consciousness, rules, and differance

pt. 5. Post terminum

15. Heidegger and the grammar of being

16. Nagarjuna and the limits of thought / Graham Priest and Jay Garfield

17. Further reflections.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-169819-9

0-19-925405-2