On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition.
Title:
On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition.
Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9783110319774
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (94 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Chapter One ON CERTAINTY -- Chapter Two PRACTICAL INFERENCE IN THEORETICAL CONTEXTS -- Chapter Three ON THE COMPLICATIONS OF EPISTEMIC QUALITY -- Chapter Four PERSUASION -- Chapter Five APORY -- Chapter Six COGNITIVE OBLIGATION -- Chapter Seven SEMANTICAL APPROXIMATION -- Chapter Eight COGNITIVE REFLEXIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE -- Chapter Nine ISSUES OF ULTIMATE EXPLANATION -- REFERENCES -- Name Index.
Abstract:
On Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.
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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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