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Ineffability and Philosophy

This book provides a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can’t

be said. As the author states, he cannot tell us directly what it is that

can’t be said, but he can tell us a lot about what can’t be said.

The 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 and the author distinguishes different senses in

which it might be said that something can’t be said.

The ﬁrst chapter looks at the question of whether ineffability is a

coherent idea. Chapter 2 evaluates two families of arguments regard-

ing whether ineffable states of affairs actually exist: the argument

from mysticism and the argument from epistemic boundedness.

Chapter 3 looks more closely at the relation between mystic and

non-mystic stances. In the fourth and final chapter the author

distinguishes ﬁve qualitatively different types of ineffability.

Ineffability and Philosophy is a significant contribution to this

area of research and will be essential reading for philosophers and

those researching and studying the philosophy of language.

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).

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

1 The Story of Analytic

Philosophy

Plot and heroes

Edited by Anat Biletzki and

Anat Matar

7 Grammar in Early

Twentieth-Century

Philosophy

Richard Gaskin

2 Donald Davidson

Truth, meaning and

knowledge

Edited by

Urszula M. Zeglén

8 Rules, Magic and

Instrumental Reason

A critical interpretation of

Peter Winch’s philosophy of

the social sciences

Berel Dov Lerner

3 Philosophy and Ordinary

Language

The bent and genius of our

tongue

Oswald Hanﬂing

9 Gaston Bachelard

Critic of science and the

imagination

Cristina Chimisso

4 The Subject in Question

Sartre’s critique of Husserl

in The Transcendence of

the Ego

Stephen Priest

10 Hilary Putnam

Pragmatism and realism

Edited by James Conant

and Urszula Zeglen

11 Karl Jaspers

Politics and metaphysics

Chris Thornhill

5 Aesthetic Order

A philosophy of order,

beauty and art

Ruth Lorland

12 From Kant to Davidson

The idea of the

transcendental in

twentieth-century

philosophy

Edited by Jeff Malpas

6 Naturalism

A critical analysis

Edited by William Lane

Craig and J. P. Moreland

13 Collingwood and the

Metaphysics of Experience

A reinterpretation

Giuseppina D’Oro

19 Trust and Toleration

Richard H. Dees

20 The Metaphysics of

Perception

Wilfrid Sellars, critical

realism and the nature of

experience

Paul Coates

14 The Logic of Liberal Rights

A study in the formal

analysis of legal discourse

Eric Heinze

15 Real Metaphysics

Edited by Hallvard

Lillehammer and Gonzalo

Rodriguez-Pereyra

21 Wittgenstein, Austrian

Economics and the Logic of

Action

Praxeological investigations

Roderick T. Long

16 Philosophy After

Postmodernism

Civilized values and the

scope of knowledge

Paul Crowther

22 Ineffability and Philosophy

André Kukla

23 Kant, Cognitive Metaphor

and Continental Philosophy

Clive Cazeaux

17 Phenomenology and

Imagination in Husserl and

Heidegger

Brian Elliott

24 Wittgenstein and Levinas

Ethical and religious

thought

Bob Plant

18 Laws in Nature

Stephen Mumford

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