On Rules and Principles.
Title:
On Rules and Principles.
Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9783110321746
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents:
Chapter 1 RULES -- Chapter 2 RULE CONFLICTS, HIGHER-ORDER RULES, AND RULES OF REASON -- Chapter 3 FUNCTIONAL HIERARCHIES -- Chapter 4 JUDGMENT AND THE LIMITED REACH OF PROCEDURAL RULES -- Chapter 5 RULES, THE SOCIAL ORDER, AND MORALITY -- Chapter 6 PRINCIPLES: THEIR NATURE AND MISSION -- Chapter 7 FUNCTIONAL HIERARCHIES AGAIN -- Chapter 8 PRINCIPLES OF RATIONAL INQUIRY -- Chapter 9 THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON -- Chapter 10 PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES -- Chapter 11 PRINCIPLES IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 12 LEIBNIZIAN PHYSICS AS A CASE STUDY -- Chapter 13 MORAL PRINCIPLES -- CODA -- References -- Name Index.
Abstract:
The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher's longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Accordingly, the role of principles in human affairs is crucial and ubiquitous. Principology, the theory of principles-underdeveloped through it may be-is accordingly bound to find a significant place in the sphere of philosophical inquiry regarding matters of thought and action.
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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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