Nicholas Rescher

Cognitive Complications (eBook, PDF)

Epistemology in Pragmatic Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 physically manipulative realm. And as a practice it has its aims and functions which in their turn provide for the standards of adequacy and efficacy that establish the criteriological norms of our cognitive proceedings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216321095
• Artikelnr.: 74844327

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher is distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In a research career extending over six decades, he has published over three hundred articles and written over a hundred philosophy texts, including A System of Pragmatic Idealism, The Limits of Science, Conditionals, Philosophical Reasoning: A Study in the Methodology of Philosphizing, Enlightening Journey: The Autobiography of an American Scholar, and Unknowability: An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Mission of PhilosophyChapter 2: Systematizing the Data of
PhilosophyChapter 3: Philosophical ExpositionChapter 4: The Taxonomy of
PhilosophyChapter 5: Some Principles of PhilosophyChapter 6: Philosophical
Method: Apories and Evaluative HarmonizationChapter 7: Philosophical
Legitimation via SystematizationChapter 8: Philosophical RefutationChapter
9: Coming to Terms with Philosophical DissensusChapter 10: Can Philosophy
Be Objective?Chapter 11: Influence among PhilosophersChapter 12: Does
Philosophy Make Progress?Chapter 13: On Philosophy as a Guide to
Life?Chapter 14: The Philosophy Industry in the U.S.A.Chapter 15: How the
History of Philosophy Relates to Philosophy Itself?Chapter 16: Interpreting
Philosophical TextsChapter 17: How to Think Like a Philosopher