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Autore |
Rescher Nicholas |
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Titolo |
Axiogenesis [[electronic resource] ] : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / / Nicholas Rescher |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-82011-7 |
9786612820113 |
0-7391-4934-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cosmology |
Teleology |
Metaphysics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Ultimate Questions; Chapter 2. Ultimate Answers; Chapter 3. Optimalism and Its Turn to Axiology; Chapter 4. Intelligence and Rationality as Pivots for Optimality: The Idea of Noophelia; Chapter 5. Abandoning Efficient Causality for Axiotropism; Chapter 6. Meeting Objections to Optimalism; Chapter 7. On the Improvability of the World; Chapter 8. Axiogenesis and Intelligent Design; Chapter 9. Intelligence in an Evolutionary Perspective; Chapter 10. Is Noophelic Axiogenesis Unscientific?; Chapter 11. Leibnizian Physics as a Case Study |
Chapter 12. Gòˆdel: Noophelia in the Twentieth CenturyBibliography; Name Index; Untitled |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Axiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultimate reason is behind the world's existence and nature. Despite drawing on various strands of neo-Platonic thought, Nicholas Rescher crafts an argument for a metaphysical theory grounded in evaluative considerations that is undeniably unique. With a keen intellectualism, it defends the idea that this actual world of ours represents a possibility that is_realistically speaking_beyond the |
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