1st Edition

Ineffability and Philosophy

By André Kukla Copyright 2005
180 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. The author distinguishes different senses in which it might be said that something can't be said. The first part looks at the question of whether ineffability... Read more

Preface  Part 1. Ineffability: The Very Idea  1.1 Indescribable Entities  1.2 The Tarskian Approach  1.3 Four of Five Grades of Ineffability  1.4 Untranslatable Languages  1.5 Inexpressible Facts  1.6 Is the Tarskian Criterion of Ineffability Vacuous?  Part 2: Mysticism, Epistemic Boundedness and Ineffability  2.1 The Argument from Epistemic Boundedness  2.2 The Argument from Mysticism  Part 3: Believing the Mystic  Part 4: Five Types of Ineffability  4.1 Unrepresentability  4.2 Unabducibility  4.3 Unselectability and Unexecutability  4.4 Unreportability

Biography

André Kukla is a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Studies in Scientific Realism (1998), Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science (2000) and Methods of Theoretical Psychology (2001).

'[Ineffability and Philosophy's] distinctions are carefully made and once made, rigorously sustained. Its arguments are similarly careful and rigorous.'Brendan Larvor, University of Hertfordshire, UK, Mind, Vol. 118 . 472 . October 2009