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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199244219

ISBN-139780199244218

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Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBeyond the Limits of Thought

Publication Year2003

SubjectEpistemology, Logic

TypeTextbook

AuthorGraham Priest

Subject AreaPhilosophy

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2003-615143

Dewey Edition21

Reviews'Review from previous edition This book is a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher...'Alan Weir, Philosophical Quarterly, 'highly entertaining and provocative... an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude...'A. W. Moore, Times Literary Supplement, 'Graham Priest combines a deep philosophical appreciation of fundamental logical issues with a marvelously informed reading of both the history of philosophy and contemporary texts. His work is ambitious and insightful... The book is an ambitious attempt to do important philosophical workacross major borders - borders of the formal and philosophical, the historical and the contemporary, the Analytical and the Continental traditions. In [this] regard it is a resounding success.'Patrick Grim, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 'clever, resourceful, undogmatic, unpretentious, often sensible and usually clear over a wide range of issues'Timothy Williamson, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 'Review from previous edition This book is a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher...'Alan Weir, Philosophical Quarterly'clever, resourceful, undogmatic, unpretentious, often sensible and usually clear over a wide range of issues'Timothy Williamson, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'highly entertaining and provocative... an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude...'A. W. Moore, Times Literary Supplement'Graham Priest combines a deep philosophical appreciation of fundamental logical issues with a marvelously informed reading of both the history of philosophy and contemporary texts. His work is ambitious and insightful... The book is an ambitious attempt to do important philosophical work across major borders - borders of the formal and philosophical, the historical and the contemporary, the Analytical and the Continental traditions. In [this] regard it isa resounding success.'Patrick Grim, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal160

Table Of ContentPrefaceIntroductionThe limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy1. The limits of expression2. The limits of iteration3. The limits of cognition4. The limits of conceptionThe limits of thought in Kant and Hegel5. Noumena and the categories6. Kant's antinomies7. Hegel's infinitiesLimits and the paradoxes of self-reference8. Absolute infinity9. Vicious circles10. Parameterization11. Sets and classesLanguage and its limits12. The unity of thought13. Translation, reference, and truth14. Consciousness, rules, and différancePost terminum15. Hiedegger and the grammar of being16. Nagarjuna and the limits of thought17. Further reflectionsBibliography; Index

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,New Edition

SynopsisThis 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, 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. The book goes on to trace the theme of the limits of thought in modern philosophy of language, including discussions of the ideas of Wittgenstein and Derrida.The second edition includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition. This clear, provocative, and systematic work offers a radically different approach to philosophy and logic., 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, 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, Graham Priest presents a new, expanded edition of his highly original exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Embracing contradiction and challenging traditional logic, Priest engages with issues across philosophical borders, from the historical to the modern, from Eastern to Western, and from the continental to the analytic. He has added new chapters on European and Indian philosophy, and reflections on responses to the book. This clear, provocative, and systematic work offers a radically different approach to philosophy and logic.

LC Classification NumberBC199.L