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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811865803321

Autore

Rescher Nicholas

Titolo

Epistemic merit : and other essays on human knowledge / / Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heusenstamm [Germany], : ontos, 2013

ISBN

3-11-032921-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1: Epistemic Merit -- Chapter 2: Is Cognitive Self-Criticism Rationally Possible? -- Chapter 3: The Problem of Future Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Diminishing Returns -- Chapter 5: Practical vs. Theoretical Reason -- Chapter 6: On Evaluating Scientific Theories -- Chapter 7: Authority -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Diffusion -- Chapter 9: Modeling in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 10: Historical Perspectives on the Systematization of Knowledge -- Chapter 11: Communicative Approximation in Philosophy -- Chapter 12: Particular Philosophies vs. Philosophy at Large -- Chapter 13: Ultimate Explanation

Sommario/riassunto

The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity they exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up through conceptual clarification.