Beyond the Limits of ThoughtThis 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 |
Contents
Beyond the limit | 3 |
Introduction | 4 |
The limits of thought in preKantian philosophy | 9 |
The limits of iteration | 29 |
Introduction | 40 |
Varieties of skepticism | 41 |
Sextus argument for skepticism | 42 |
Analysis of the argument | 44 |
and absence | 215 |
Deconstruction | 217 |
The revenge of Cratylus | 218 |
Différance | 219 |
and inclosure | 221 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Conclusion | 225 |
The persistence of inclosure | 227 |
Skepticism and selfreference | 46 |
Protagorean relativism | 48 |
The argument for relativism | 49 |
Socrates attack | 50 |
Nothing is true 9 Cognition and paradox | 53 |
Conclusion | 55 |
The limits of conception Introduction 1 Anselms ontological argument | 56 |
The inconceivability of | 57 |
The characterisation principle | 59 |
Berkeleys master argument for idealism | 60 |
Analysis stage I | 61 |
Analysis stage II | 63 |
Berkeleys response | 65 |
Some objections | 68 |
Berkeleys paradox Conclusion | 69 |
The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel | 71 |
Noumena and the categories Introduction | 73 |
Phenomena and noumena | 74 |
The categories of judgment | 75 |
The applicability of the categories | 77 |
The law of causation | 79 |
The contradictory nature of noumena | 80 |
Analogy Conclusion | 83 |
their abstract structure | 87 |
the beginning of the cosmos | 88 |
the divisibility of matter | 90 |
causal chains | 92 |
a necessary being | 94 |
Hegels infinities | 102 |
Limits and the paradoxes of selfreference | 111 |
Vicious circles | 128 |
Parameterisation | 141 |
Sets and classes | 156 |
Technical appendix | 170 |
Language and its limits | 177 |
Translation reference and truth | 195 |
The indeterminacy of reference | 200 |
Relative reference | 201 |
Davidson truth and meaning | 204 |
Semantic closure and contradiction | 206 |
Conclusion | 208 |
Consciousness rules and différance | 209 |
Following a rule | 210 |
Language games | 212 |
Derrida on presence | 214 |
Limitative theorems | 228 |
The Grim universe | 229 |
Hegel and inclosure | 233 |
Post terminum | 235 |
Heidegger and the grammar of being | 237 |
The question of being | 238 |
The incredible ineffability of being | 239 |
Nothing | 240 |
Being and nothing | 242 |
Stretching language | 243 |
The limits of description | 245 |
Aletheia and the law of noncontradiction | 247 |
Nāgārjuna and the limits of thought with Jay Garfield | 249 |
Inclosures and the limits of thought | 251 |
Conventional and ultimate reality | 253 |
Nāgārjuna and the law of noncontradiction | 256 |
The ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth | 260 |
Positive and negative tetralemmas conventional and ultimate perspectives | 263 |
All things have one nature that is no nature | 265 |
Nagarjuna and inclosure | 267 |
Nagarjunas paradox and others like and unlike it | 269 |
Further reflections | 271 |
The inclosure schema | 276 |
The domain principle | 280 |
Another solution that reproduces the problem | 282 |
Berkeleys paradox | 285 |
The principle of uniform solution | 287 |
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Beyond the Limits of Thought Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy Graham Priest,Graham Priest Limited preview - 1995 |
Common terms and phrases
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