Rescher Studies in Cognitive Finitude

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032634-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 5, 133 Seiten

Reihe: Collected Papers

For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;4
2;PREFACE;8
3;Chapter 1FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS(ON UNREALIZABLE ASPIRATIONS);9
4;Chapter 2 - ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE:IGNORANCE AND ERROR;24
5;Chapter 3SCEPTICISM AND FINITUDE;36
6;Chapter 4LIMITS OF COGNITIONA LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THEQUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCYBETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTHAND OBJECTIVE FACT;46
7;Chapter 5COGNITIVE PROGRESS AND ITSCOMPLICATIONS;66
8;Chapter 6AGAINST SCIENTIFIC INSOLUBILIA;73
9;Chapter 7THE PROBLEM OF UNKNOWABLEFACTS;85
10;Chapter 8EPISTEMIC INSOLUBILIA ANDCOGNITIVE FINITUDE;96
11;Chapter 9CAN COMPUTERS OVERCOME OURCOGNITIVE FINITUDE?;112
12;CONCLUSION;127
13;NAME INDEX;132