Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays /

Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays / / Nicholas Rescher.

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Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher's characteristic way of illuminating time...

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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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Rescher, Nicholas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2008
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
  • Content
  • PREFACE
  • Chapter 1: BEING AND VALUE
  • Chapter 2: ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN
  • Chapter 3: MIND AND MATTER
  • Chapter 4: FALLACIES REGARDING FREE WILL
  • Chapter 5: SOPHISTICATING NAÏVE REALISM
  • Chapter 6: TAXONOMIC COMPLEXITY AND THE LAWS OF NATURE
  • Chapter 7: PRACTICAL VS. THEORETICAL REASON
  • Chapter 8: PRAGMATISM AS A GROWTH INDUSTRY
  • Chapter 9: COST-BENEFIT EPISTEMOLOGY
  • Chapter 10: QUANTIFYING QUALITY (ON THE THEORY OF ELITES)
  • Chapter 11: EXPLANATORY SURDITY
  • Chapter 12: CAN PHILOSOPHY BE OBJECTIVE?
  • Chapter 13: ON ONTOLOGY IN COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
  • Chapter 14: PLENUM THEORY
  • Chapter 15: ONOMETRICS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Name Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Backmatter

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