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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255207503321

Autore

Rescher Nicholas

Titolo

Value Reasoning [[electronic resource] ] : On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation / / by Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-54139-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 147 p. 17 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Pivot

Disciplina

128.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Value Basics -- 2. Value Attribution -- 3. Rational Choice and Value Complementarity -- 4. Integration Problems -- 5. Rationality Issues -- 6. Rational Choice and Merit Complementarity -- 7. Circularity Issues -- 8. Evaluating Cognitive Significance -- 9. Epistemic Evaluation -- 10. Allocating Scientific Credit -- 11. Evaluating Contention Tenacity.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is—or should be—a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation.