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

Published by De Gruyter 2009

Reason, Method, and Value

A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher

Edited by: Dale Jacquette

Volume 4 in the series Reading Rescher

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110329056

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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 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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
NICHOLAS RESCHER’S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY Introduction Dale Jacquette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. THEORY OF INQUIRY
Introduction John Greco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter I/1. PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter I/2. THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: COHERENTIST CRITERIOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter I/3. THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter I/4. ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter I/5. AGAINST COGNITIVE RELATIVISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Part II. LOGIC AND PARADOX
Introduction John Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter II/1. VAGRANT PREDICATES AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter II/2. TRUTH, FACT, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter II/3. APORETICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter II/4. PARADOX RESOLUTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter II/5. REIFICATION FALLACIES AND INAPPROPRIATE TOTALITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Chapter II/6. PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Part III. SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS
Introduction Robert Almeder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Chapter III/1. THE SYSTEMATICITY OF NATURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Chapter III/2. THE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF NATURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Chapter III/3. THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF FUTURE SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Chapter III/4. TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION AND THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF NATURAL SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Chapter III/5. THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Chapter III/6. THE UNREALIZABILITY OF PERFECTED SCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Part IV. METAPHYSICS
Introduction William Jaworski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Chapter IV/1. PRAGMATIC REALISM: A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON PHILOSOPHICAL REALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Chapter IV/2. IDEALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Chapter IV/3. PRAGMATISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Chapter IV/4 OPTIMALISM AND AXIOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Part V. ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Introduction Lenn E. Goodman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Chapter V/1. MORAL RELATIVISM: ARE THERE MORAL UNIVERSALS? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
Chapter V/2. RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Chapter V/3. IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
Chapter V/4. THE POWER OF IDEALS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535
Part VI. PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION
Introduction Lorenz B. Puntel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
Chapter VI/1. ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION: PLAUSIBILITY AND THE HEGELIAN VISION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
Chapter VI/2. WHY PHILOSOPHIZING MUST BE SYSTEMATIC (THE HOLISTIC NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	585
Chapter VI/3. PHILOSOPHY AND PARADOX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	603
Chapter VI/4. HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	623
BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 643
Keywords: Logik; Metaphysik; Nicholas Rescher; Philosophie; Wissenschaftstheorie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110329056

Hardcover

Published: January 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110328660