On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition / / 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 li...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2011
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; Zahlr. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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