Ineffability and its Metaphysics

The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-95424-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonas, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.