Axiogenesis : An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism.
Title:
Axiogenesis : An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism.
Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
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9780739149348
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- 1 Ultimate Questions -- 2 Ultimate Answers -- 3 Optimalism and Its Turn to Axiology -- 4 Intelligence and Rationality as Pivots for Optimality: The Idea of Noophelia -- 5 Abandoning Efficient Causality for Axiotropism -- 6 Meeting Objections to Optimalism -- 7 On the Improvability of the World -- 8 Axiogenesis and Intelligent Design -- 9 Intelligence in an Evolutionary Perspective -- 10 Is Noophelic Axiogenesis Unscientific? -- 11 Leibnizian Physics as a Case Study -- 12 Gödel: Noophelia in the Twentieth Century -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
Axiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultimate reason is behind the world's existence and nature. Despite drawing on various strands of neo-Platonic thought, Nicholas Rescher crafts an argument for a metaphysical theory grounded in evaluative considerations that is undeniably unique. With a keen intellectualism, it defends the idea that this actual world of ours represents a possibility that is_realistically speaking_beyond the prospect of improvement.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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