Beyond the Limits of Thought

Name: Beyond the Limits of Thought
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ISBN: 9780199244218

ISBN-10: 0199244219

ISBN-13: 9780199244218

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Graham Priest

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Graham Priest presents a new, expanded edition of his highly original exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Drawing on recent developments in the field of logic, Priest shows that the description of such limits leads to contradiction, and argues that these contradictions are in fact true. Beginning with an analysis of the way in which these limits arise in pre-Kantian philosophy, Priest goes on to illustrate how the nature of these limits was theorized by Kant and Hegel.He offers new interpretations of Berkeley's master argument for idealism and Kant on the antinomies. He explores the paradoxes of self-reference, and provides a unified account of the structure of such paradoxes.…

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List price: $51.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melobourne, and Arche Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews



Preface


Introduction



The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy The limits of expression



The limits of iteration



The limits of cognition



The limits of conception



The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel Noumena and the categories



Kant's antinomies



Hegel's infinities



Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference Absolute infinity



Vicious circles



Parameterization



Sets and classes



Language and its limits The unity of thought



Translation, reference, and truth



Consciousness, rules, and differance



Post terminum Hiedegger and the grammar of being



Nagarjuna and the limits of thought



Further reflections


Bibliography


Index