Reason, Method, and Value : : A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher / / ed. by Dale Jacquette.

Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher o...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t NICHOLAS RESCHER’S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY --   |t Part I. THEORY OF INQUIRY --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter I/1. PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION --   |t Chapter I/2. THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: COHERENTIST CRITERIOLOGY --   |t Chapter I/3. THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY --   |t Chapter I/4. ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS --   |t Chapter I/5. AGAINST COGNITIVE RELATIVISM --   |t Part II. LOGIC AND PARADOX --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter II/1. VAGRANT PREDICATES AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS --   |t Chapter II/2. TRUTH, FACT, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE --   |t Chapter II/3. APORETICS --   |t Chapter II/4. PARADOX RESOLUTION --   |t Chapter II/5. REIFICATION FALLACIES AND INAPPROPRIATE TOTALITIES --   |t Chapter II/6. PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION --   |t Part III. SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter III/1. THE SYSTEMATICITY OF NATURE --   |t Chapter III/2. THE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF NATURE --   |t Chapter III/3. THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF FUTURE SCIENCE --   |t Chapter III/4. TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION AND THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF NATURAL SCIENCE --   |t Chapter III/5. THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS --   |t Chapter III/6. THE UNREALIZABILITY OF PERFECTED SCIENCE --   |t Part IV. METAPHYSICS --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter IV/1. PRAGMATIC REALISM: A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON PHILOSOPHICAL REALISM --   |t Chapter IV/2. IDEALISM --   |t Chapter IV/3. PRAGMATISM --   |t Chapter IV/4 OPTIMALISM AND AXIOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS --   |t Part V. ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter V/1. MORAL RELATIVISM: ARE THERE MORAL UNIVERSALS? --   |t Chapter V/2. RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION --   |t Chapter V/3. IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER? --   |t Chapter V/4. THE POWER OF IDEALS --   |t Part VI. PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter VI/1. ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION: PLAUSIBILITY AND THE HEGELIAN VISION --   |t Chapter VI/2. WHY PHILOSOPHIZING MUST BE SYSTEMATIC (THE HOLISTIC NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY) --   |t Chapter VI/3. PHILOSOPHY AND PARADOX --   |t Chapter VI/4. HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY --   |t BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER 
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520 |a Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher offers a selection of Rescher's writings over a span of decades representing the core of his prodigious research interests in six key areas. Each section of the *Reader* is accompanied by a compact critical introduction written by a leading philosophical scholar with spezial expertise in Rescher's philosophy, and the volume opens with an appreciative introduction written by the editor and a concluding retrospective by Rescher, looking back over his oeuvre and explaining connecting themes and the unity of system contained in this extensive body of work. Taken together, the volume encapsulates the heart of Rescher's impressive lifelong contributions to philosophy between two covers, in a single volume that provides a solid overview of his thought while serving to direct readers to the corpus of Rescher's writings for amore complete picture. 
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