Reason, Method, and Value : : A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher /

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Almeder, Robert,
Goodman, Lenn E.,
Greco, John,
Jacquette, Dale,
Jaworski, William,
Puntel, Lorenz B.,
Woods, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Jacquette, Dale,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2009
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Reading Rescher , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (643 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • NICHOLAS RESCHER’S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY
  • Part I. THEORY OF INQUIRY
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I/1. PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION
  • Chapter I/2. THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: COHERENTIST CRITERIOLOGY
  • Chapter I/3. THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY
  • Chapter I/4. ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS
  • Chapter I/5. AGAINST COGNITIVE RELATIVISM
  • Part II. LOGIC AND PARADOX
  • Introduction
  • Chapter II/1. VAGRANT PREDICATES AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS
  • Chapter II/2. TRUTH, FACT, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Chapter II/3. APORETICS
  • Chapter II/4. PARADOX RESOLUTION
  • Chapter II/5. REIFICATION FALLACIES AND INAPPROPRIATE TOTALITIES
  • Chapter II/6. PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION
  • Part III. SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter III/1. THE SYSTEMATICITY OF NATURE
  • Chapter III/2. THE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF NATURE
  • Chapter III/3. THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF FUTURE SCIENCE
  • Chapter III/4. TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION AND THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF NATURAL SCIENCE
  • Chapter III/5. THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS
  • Chapter III/6. THE UNREALIZABILITY OF PERFECTED SCIENCE
  • Part IV. METAPHYSICS
  • Introduction
  • Chapter IV/1. PRAGMATIC REALISM: A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON PHILOSOPHICAL REALISM
  • Chapter IV/2. IDEALISM
  • Chapter IV/3. PRAGMATISM
  • Chapter IV/4 OPTIMALISM AND AXIOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS
  • Part V. ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Introduction
  • Chapter V/1. MORAL RELATIVISM: ARE THERE MORAL UNIVERSALS?
  • Chapter V/2. RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION
  • Chapter V/3. IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER?
  • Chapter V/4. THE POWER OF IDEALS
  • Part VI. PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION
  • Introduction
  • Chapter VI/1. ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION: PLAUSIBILITY AND THE HEGELIAN VISION
  • Chapter VI/2. WHY PHILOSOPHIZING MUST BE SYSTEMATIC (THE HOLISTIC NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY)
  • Chapter VI/3. PHILOSOPHY AND PARADOX
  • Chapter VI/4. HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
  • BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER

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