02792nam 2200601Ia 450 991078544940332120200520144314.01-282-82011-797866128201130-7391-4934-2(CKB)2670000000060594(EBL)662337(OCoLC)680036293(SSID)ssj0000412416(PQKBManifestationID)12183345(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412416(PQKBWorkID)10368142(PQKB)10539602(MiAaPQ)EBC662337(Au-PeEL)EBL662337(CaPaEBR)ebr10421389(CaONFJC)MIL282011(EXLCZ)99267000000006059420100412d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAxiogenesis[electronic resource] an essay in metaphysical optimalism /Nicholas RescherLanham, MD Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (237 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-4932-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 StudyChapter 12. Gödel: Noophelia in the Twentieth CenturyBibliography; Name Index; UntitledAxiogenesis 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 prospect of improvement.CosmologyTeleologyMetaphysicsCosmology.Teleology.Metaphysics.110Rescher Nicholas50144MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785449403321Axiogenesis3725302UNINA