Ideas in Process : : A Study on the Development of Philosophical Concepts / / Nicholas Rescher.

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• VerfasserIn: Rescher, Nicholas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Process Thought , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)

The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of generic processes that have ample room for connectivity and recurrence, permitting the very self-same conception to be shared by philosophers of different settings. Beyond arguing this histico-processism on general principles, the book presents a series of case studies of significant philosophical topics that illustrate and elaborate upon the developmental connectivities at issue.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter One. IDEAS IN PROCESS -- Chapter Two. FOUR MODELS OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter Three. FREE WILL AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE IDENTITY MODEL -- Chapter Four. INTERSUBSTANTIVAL RELATIONS AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMON CORE MODEL -- Chapter Five. ANALYTICITY AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMON CORE MODEL -- Chapter Six. THE COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE THEMATIC LINKAGE MODEL -- Chapter Seven. DIALECTIC ITSELF AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE DIALECTICAL MODEL -- Chapter Eight. PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY IN PROCESS-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Name Index