Philosophical Episodes / / 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.

Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particularized ideas and issues: studies that deal not with entire continents but with mere reefs and estuaries. The present essays are of this limited nature. Their aim is less to give a view of the overall lay of the land than to give a tranistic view of the diversity of the landscape. The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity the essays exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM -- Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM -- Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY -- Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT -- Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY -- Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE -- Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC -- Chapter Eight: KANT'S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method) -- Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS -- Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY -- Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS -- Chapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED -- Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL'S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY -- Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions) -- Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES -- Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution) -- REFERENCES -- Backmatter