03478nam 2200613 a 450 991045270210332120200520144314.03-11-032134-310.1515/9783110321340(CKB)2550000001097058(OCoLC)854569279(CaPaEBR)ebrary10728852(SSID)ssj0000991186(PQKBManifestationID)11648398(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000991186(PQKBWorkID)10994838(PQKB)11747167(MiAaPQ)EBC3042696(DE-B1597)210780(OCoLC)852657241(OCoLC)853249609(DE-B1597)9783110321340(Au-PeEL)EBL3042696(CaPaEBR)ebr10728852(CaONFJC)MIL503592(OCoLC)922945609(EXLCZ)99255000000109705820130709d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeing and value[electronic resource] and other philosophical essays /Nicholas RescherFrankfurt Ontos Verlag20081 online resource (222 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph3-11-032104-1 1-299-72341-1 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Content -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: BEING AND VALUE -- Chapter 2: ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN -- Chapter 3: MIND AND MATTER -- Chapter 4: FALLACIES REGARDING FREE WILL -- Chapter 5: SOPHISTICATING NAÏVE REALISM -- Chapter 6: TAXONOMIC COMPLEXITY AND THE LAWS OF NATURE -- Chapter 7: PRACTICAL VS. THEORETICAL REASON -- Chapter 8: PRAGMATISM AS A GROWTH INDUSTRY -- Chapter 9: COST-BENEFIT EPISTEMOLOGY -- Chapter 10: QUANTIFYING QUALITY (ON THE THEORY OF ELITES) -- Chapter 11: EXPLANATORY SURDITY -- Chapter 12: CAN PHILOSOPHY BE OBJECTIVE? -- Chapter 13: ON ONTOLOGY IN COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 14: PLENUM THEORY -- Chapter 15: ONOMETRICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Name Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- BackmatterBeing and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher's characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship. The chapter of the book are as follows: Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating Naïve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy) Philosophy, American20th centuryElectronic books.Philosophy, American191Rescher Nicholas50144MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452702103321Being and value2468603UNINA