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  • Understanding Reality

    Metaphysics in Epistemological Perspective

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    The book sees to show that the present discussion so unfolds as to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. The ultimate explanation of its order is as something that also provides for its reason for being. Step by step, a train of thought unfolds to indicate that Reality both exists and has the nature it does for good reason, and ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Metaphilosophy

    Philosophy in Philosophical Perspective

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    The definitive mission of metaphilosophy is to facilitate an understanding of how philosophy works—the aim of the enterprise, the instrumental and procedural resources for its work, and the prospect of its success. Nicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that historical perspective and forward-thinking normative, or systematic, metaphilosophy cannot be independent of one ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time to engage with issues of philosophical concern: questions of meaning, truth, knowledge, value, action, and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Axiogenesis

    An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Nicholas Rescher's book Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism is a detailed exposition of axiogenerts: the philosophical theory seeking to explain the world's facts on the basis of evaluative considerations. In classical antiquity, this theory was espoused by Plato (in the Timaeus) and neo-Platonic tradition; in early modern times, it was revived by Leibniz and continued to find favor ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Ignorance

    (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as "a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me."In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series American Philosophy Series
    This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. This shift of focus has implications for virtually ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Cognitive Complications

    Epistemology in Pragmatic Perspective

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    The prime intent of Cognitive Complications is one of innovation. Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussion, their inherent interest notwithstanding. The linking thread of these investigations is their pragmatic dimension, inherent in the idea that rational inquiry is itself a practice—albeit one that functions in the ideationally cognitive rather than ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Concept Audits

    A Philosophical Method

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth, justice, fairness, beauty, or the like and purport to be dealing with what it involves, then they must honor the existing meanings of these terms. And insofar as the prevailing meaning is being contravened, they must explain how and justify why this ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Epistemic Principles

    A Primer for the Theory of Knowledge

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series Libro 228 - American University Studies
    Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive analysis of epistemological fundamentals. The book is not a mere inventory of such rules and principles, but rather interweaves ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Essays in Philosophical Synthesis

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems and topics bound together by links of reciprocal interconnection.The book consists of two parts: The first part consists of a series of case studies which illustrate how philosophical issues do not remain in neatly separated compartments but reach out in ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Philosophical Inquiries

    An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    In Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to "question the questions." Rescher sees the need to inquire as an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and shows how philosophy has thus developed in an evolutionary fashion, building upon acquired knowledge ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Pragmatic Vision

    Themes in Philosophical Pragmatism

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Since C. S. Pierce advocated a pragmatic approach to truth and knowledge, it has been one of the characteristic themes of American philosophy. This book examines how pragmatism's central ideas can be applied and implemented across the entire domain of philosophical deliberations, ranging from theory of knowledge and the value theory to providing explanations for human actions, and even to matters ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD