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The essays in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn. The chapters examine how they figure in Kant's and Wittgenstein's most significant works and put them in touch with contemporary debates that are shaped by their legacy.
List of contents
Introduction: Where Intelligibility Gives Out Jens Pier
Part I: Limits Assessed
1. Metaphysical Dissatisfaction Barry Stroud
2. The Bounds of Sense A. W. Moore
Part II: Limits in Kant
3. Kant on Why We Cannot Even Judge about Things in Themselves Guido Kreis
4. The "Original" Form of Cognition: On Kant’s Hylomorphism Andrea Kern
5. Logical and Moral Aliens Within Us: Kant on Theoretical and Practical Self-Conceit G. Anthony Bruno
Part III: Limits in Wittgenstein
6. Wittgenstein on the Limits of Language Hans Sluga
7. The Threefold Puzzle of Negation and the Limits of Sense Jean-Philippe Narboux
8. Truth and the Limits of Ethical Thought: Reading Wittgenstein with Diamond Gilad Nir
Part IV: Limits Reconsidered
9. On Transcending the Limits of Language Graham Priest
10. Art, Authenticity, and Understanding David Suarez
11. No Limit: On What Thought Can Actually Do Jocelyn Benoist
12. On the Speculative Form of Holistic Reflection: Hegel’s Criticism of Kant’s Limitations of Reason Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer.
Index
About the author
Jens Pier is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His current research focuses on metaphysics, the philosophy of self-consciousness, Kant, Wittgenstein, and the prospects for a critical philosophical methodology. In thinking about these issues, he puts special emphasis on how a proper articulation of the self-conscious structure of human mindedness might elucidate the relation between conceptions of philosophy aimed at systematicity and scientificity on the one hand, and those aimed at diagnosis, therapy, or explication on the other.
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The essays in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn. The chapters examine how they figure in Kant’s and Wittgenstein’s most significant works and put them in touch with contemporary debates that are shaped by their legacy.
