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  title info:
    title: Limits of intelligibility
    sub title: issues from Kant and Wittgenstein
  name:
    name part: Pier, Jens
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. Is there a way in which we are limited in what we think, know and say? And if so, does this mean that we are constrained, that there is something beyond the ken of human intelligibility of which we fall short? Or is there another way to think about these limits of intelligibility, namely as conditions of our meaning and knowing anything, beyond which there is no specifiable thing we cannot do? These issues feature prominently in the writings of Kant and Wittgenstein who each engaged with them in unique and striking ways. Their thoughts on the matter remain provocative and stimulating, and accordingly the contributions to this volume address the issues surrounding the limits of intelligibility both exegetically and systematically. They 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. These debates concern, inter alia, logically and morally alien thought, the semantics and philosophy of negation, disjunctivism in philosophy of perception and ethics, paraconsistent approaches to contradiction and the relation between art, literature and philosophy. The book is divided into four parts: Part I gives a first assessment of the issues, Part II examines limits as they feature in Kant, Part III as they feature in Wittgenstein and Part IV suggests some ways in which the questions might be reconsidered, drawing upon ideas in phenomenology, dialetheism, metamathematics and the works of other influential authors. Limits of Intelligibility provides insight into a theme that is central to the thought of two of the most important figures in modern philosophy, as well as to recent metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, epistemology and ethics.
  note: edited by Jens Pier.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kant, Immanuel
      name part: 1724-1804
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
      name part: 1889-1951
  classification: BD181.5 .L56 2023
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9780367689629
  identifier: 0367689626
  identifier: 9780367695286
  identifier: 0367695286
  identifier: 9781003142133
  identifier: 2022028682
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220616
    record change date: 20230501191442.6
    record identifier: in00004663365