Jacquette Reason, Method, and Value

A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032905-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 643 Seiten

Reihe: Reading Rescher

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacquette, Dale

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents
;5
2;Preface;9
3;NICHOLAS RESCHER’S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY IntroductionDale Jacquette;11
4;Part I THEORY OF INQUIRY;29
4.1;IntroductionJohn Greco;29
4.2;PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION;37
4.3;THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH: COHERENTIST CRITERIOLOGY;65
4.4;THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF COMMUNAL PRACTICES IN INQUIRY;85
4.5;ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS;95
4.6;AGAINST COGNITIVE RELATIVISM;115
5;Part II LOGIC AND PARADOX;133
5.1;Introduction John Woods;133
5.2;VAGRANT PREDICATES AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS;157
5.3;TRUTH, FACT, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE;169
5.4;APORETICS;179
5.5;PARADOX RESOLUTION;193
5.6;REIFICATION FALLACIES AND INAPPROPRIATE TOTALITIES;207
5.7;PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION;229
6;Part III SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS;235
6.1;Introduction Robert Almeder;235
6.2;THE SYSTEMATICITY OF NATURE;257
6.3;THE COMPLEXITY AND COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF NATURE;273
6.4;THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF FUTURESCIENCE;301
6.5;TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION AND THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF NATURAL SCIENCE;317
6.6;THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS;327
6.7;THE UNREALIZABILITY OFPERFECTED SCIENCE;341
7;Part IV METAPHYSICS;365
7.1;Introduction William Jaworski;365
7.2;PRAGMATIC REALISM: A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM;375
7.3;IDEALISM;399
7.4;PRAGMATISM;415
7.5;OPTIMALISM AND AXIOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS;435
8;Part V ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY;465
8.1;IntroductionLenn E. Goodman;465
8.2;MORAL RELATIVISM: ARE THERE MORAL UNIVERSALS?;481
8.3;RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION;519
8.4;IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER?;531
8.5;THE POWER OF IDEALS;545
9;Part VI PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION;557
9.1;Introduction Lorenz B. Puntel;557
9.2;ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION: PLAUSIBILITY AND THEHEGELIAN VISION;565
9.3;WHY PHILOSOPHIZING MUST BE SYSTEMATIC (THE HOLISTIC NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY);595
9.4;PHILOSOPHY AND PARADOX;613
9.5;HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY;633
10;BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER;643