Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
Title:
Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency.
Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9780822973683
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (174 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Nature of Apories -- Chapter 2. Coherentism: An Aporetic Approach to Empirical Inquiry -- Chapter 3. Counterfactual Conditionals -- Chapter 4. Variant Analyses of Counterfactuals and Problems of Probability -- Chapter 5. The Aporetics of Counterfactual History -- Chapter 6. Paradoxes -- Chapter 7. Philosophical Aporetics -- Chapter 8. The Dialectics of Philosophical Development -- Chapter 9. The Rationale of Aporetic Variation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
Abstract:
Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.
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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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