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Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy

Autor Silvia Jonas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2018
This book offers an analytically rigorous and systematic discussion of possible ways of making metaphysical sense of ineffability. Silvia Jonas defends the idea that ineffable insights as found in aesthetic, religious, and philosophical contexts are best understood in terms of self-acquaintance, a particular kind of non-propositional knowledge.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349954247
ISBN-10: 1349954241
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: XI, 226 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction
1.1. Getting a Grip on the Topic
1.2. The Relevant Cases
1.3. A Brief History of Ineffability
1.4. Four Ways of Predicate Application
1.5. Structure of the Book
2. Terminology
2.1. Content
2.2. Representations
2.3. Experience
2.4. Truth and Truth-Bearers
2.5. Expressibility and Ineffability
3. Ineffable Properties and Objects
3.1. Why Ineffable Properties and Objects?
3.2. The Absolute
3.3. Haecceities
3.4. Bare Particulars
4. Ineffable Propositions
4.1. Why Ineffable Propositions?
4.2. Inaccessibility
4.3. Semantic Paradoxes
4.4. Unformulable Mathematical Propositions
4.5. Excess Propositions
4.6. Perspective Propositions
5. Ineffable Content
5.1. Why Ineffable Content?
5.2. Non-Conceptual Concept in Perception
5.3. The Contents of Aesthetic Experience
5.4. The Contents of Religious Experience
6. Ineffable Knowledge I
6.1. Why Ineffable Knowledge?
6.2. Objective Ineffable Knowledge
6.3. Knowledge-How
6.4. Basic Logical Knowledge
6.5. Non-Representational Knowledge
7. Ineffable Knowledge II
7.1. Subjective Ineffable Knowledge
7.2. Indexical Knowledge
7.3. Phenomenal Knowledge
7.4. Self-Acquaintance
8. Conclusion
9. Bibliography




Recenzii

"A rare combination of first-rate analytical philosophy with a grand metaphysical ambition." - Michael Inwood, University of Oxford, UK


"A clear and lucid investigation of a notoriously difficult topic, bringing together an impressive range of contemporary scholarship and probing in places deeper than existing literature." - Edward Kanterian, University of Kent, USA



Notă biografică

Silvia Jonas is a Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at The Van Leer Institute and a Visiting Researcher at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She completed her PhD at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and holds a BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford as well as an MLitt in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, UK.

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Can art, religion, or philosophy afford ineffable insights? If so, what are they? The idea of ineffability has puzzled philosophers from Laozi to Wittgenstein. In Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion and Philosophy, Silvia Jonas examines different ways of thinking about what ineffable insights might involve metaphysically, and shows which of these are in fact incoherent. Jonas discusses the concepts of ineffable properties and objects, ineffable propositions, ineffable content, and ineffable knowledge, examining the metaphysical pitfalls involved in these concepts. Ultimately, she defends the idea that ineffable insights as found in aesthetic, religious, and philosophical contexts are best understood in terms of self-acquaintance, a particular kind of non-propositional knowledge. Ineffability as a philosophical topic is as old as the history of philosophy itself, but contributions to the exploration of ineffability have been sparse. The theory developedby Jonas makes the concept tangible and usable in many different philosophical contexts.