Graham Priest

Beyond the Limits of Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition. Praise for previous edition: "a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher..."--Philosophical Quarterly "(H)ighly entertaining and provocative...an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude..."--TLS

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780199244218
• ISBN-10: 0199244219
• Artikelnr.: 21590952

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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