Nicholas Rescher

Reason and Reality

Realism and Idealism in Pragmatic Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reason and Reality expounds a pragmatic metaphysics that offers a new approach to this subject's traditional objective of providing us with a secure cognitive grip on the nature of reality. The characteristic nature of this metaphysical approach lies in its commitment to the idea that the requisite security is best and most reliably provided by functional considerations of pragmatic efficacy service the aims and purposes of rational inquiry and effective communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780742545069
• ISBN-10: 0742545067
• Artikelnr.: 22466171

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Real Things: Reality and Its Contrasts
Chapter 2 On Quantifying Knowledge: And the Gulf between Linguistic Truth
and Objective Fact
Chapter 3 Immediate Experience and Ontology: A Functional Perspective on
Philosophical Realism
Chapter 4 Presumptions and Evidentially Transcendental Concepts: An
Idealistic Perspective on Philosophical Realism
Chapter 5 Pragmatic Realism: A Practicalistic Perspective on Philosophical
Realism
Chapter 6 Realism and Cognitive Debility: An Epistemic Perspective on
Philosophical Realism
Chapter 7 On the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Laws of Nature:The
Inherent Risks of Scientific Empiricism
Chapter 8 Pragmatism and Practical Rationality
Chapter 9 Name Index