On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition / / Nicholas Rescher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Rescher, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; Zahlr. Abb.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Chapter 1: On Certainty --; Chapter 2: Practical Inference in Theoretical Contexts --; Chapter 3: On the Complications of Epistemic Quality --; Chapter 4: Persuasion --; Chapter 5: Apory --; Chapter 6: Cognitive Obligation --; Chapter 7: Semantical Approximation --; Chapter 8: Cognitive Reflexivity and the Limits of Knowledge --; Chapter 9: Issues of Ultimate Explanation --; REFERENCES --; Name Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110319774; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110319774
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nicholas Rescher.

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.