Reason, Method, and Value a Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher.
Title:
Reason, Method, and Value a Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher.
Author:
Jacquette, Dale.
ISBN:
9783110329056
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Publication Information:
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2009.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (653 pages).
Series:
Reading Rescher
Reading Rescher.
Contents:
Preface; NICHOLAS RESCHER'S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY IntroductionDale Jacquette; Part I THEORY OF INQUIRY; IntroductionJohn Greco; PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION; THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: COHERENTIST CRITERIOLOGY; THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY; ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS; AGAINST COGNITIVE RELATIVISM; Part II LOGIC AND PARADOX; Introduction John Woods; VAGRANT PREDICATES AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS; TRUTH, FACT, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE; APORETICS; PARADOX RESOLUTION; REIFICATION FALLACIES AND INAPPROPRIATE TOTALITIES; PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION.
Part III SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITSIntroduction Robert Almeder; THE SYSTEMATICITY OF NATURE; THE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF NATURE; THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF FUTURESCIENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION AND THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF NATURAL SCIENCE; THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS; THE UNREALIZABILITY OFPERFECTED SCIENCE; Part IV METAPHYSICS; Introduction William Jaworski; PRAGMATIC REALISM: A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM; IDEALISM; PRAGMATISM; OPTIMALISM AND AXIOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS; Part V ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY; IntroductionLenn E. Goodman.
MORAL RELATIVISM: ARE THERE MORAL UNIVERSALS?RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION; IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER?; THE POWER OF IDEALS; Part VI PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION; Introduction Lorenz B. Puntel; ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION: PLAUSIBILITY AND THEHEGELIAN VISION; WHY PHILOSOPHIZING MUST BE SYSTEMATIC (THE HOLISTIC NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY); PHILOSOPHY AND PARADOX; HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER.
Abstract:
Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher offers a selection of Rescher's writings over a span of decades representing the core of his prodigious research interests in six key areas. Each section of the *Reader* is accompanied by a compact critical introduction written by a leading philosophical scholar with spezial expertise in Rescher's ph.
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