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Zusatztext 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 is a resounding success. Informationen zum Autor Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and also Arche Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of In Contradiction (1987), Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001), and the editor of several collections on logic and related subjects. He is also the author of a successful book on Logic in the Very Short Introduction series. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Graham Priest presents an expanded edition of his exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Embracing contradiction and challenging traditional logic, he engages with issues across philosophical borders, from the historical to the modern, Eastern to Western, continental to analytic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy 2: The limits of iteration 3: The limits of cognition 4: The limits of conception The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel 6: Kant's antinomies 7: Hegel's infinities Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference 9: Vicious circles 10: Parameterization 11: Sets and classes Language and its limits 13: Translation, reference, and truth 14: Consciousness, rules, and différance Post terminum 16: Nagarjuna and the limits of thought 17: Further reflections Bibliography; Index ...
