André Kukla

Ineffability and Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book asks whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9780415591621
• ISBN-10: 0415591627
• Artikelnr.: 54572699

Autorenporträt

André Kukla is a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Studies in Scientific Realism (1998), Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science (2000) and Methods of Theoretical Psychology (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1. Ineffability: The Very Idea 1.1 Indescribable Entities 1.2
The Tarskian Approach 1.3 Four of Five Grades of Ineffability 1.4
Untranslatable Languages 1.5 Inexpressible Facts 1.6 Is the Tarskian
Criterion of Ineffability Vacuous? Part 2: Mysticism, Epistemic Boundedness
and Ineffability 2.1 The Argument from Epistemic Boundedness 2.2 The
Argument from Mysticism Part 3: Believing the Mystic Part 4: Five Types of
Ineffability 4.1 Unrepresentability 4.2 Unabducibility 4.3 Unselectability
and Unexecutability 4.4 Unreportability