02641nam 2200589 a 450 991080943140332120230725061611.03-11-031977-210.1515/9783110319774(CKB)2550000001096800(EBL)1215522(OCoLC)851972068(SSID)ssj0000801485(PQKBManifestationID)11457073(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000801485(PQKBWorkID)10794342(PQKB)10743658(MiAaPQ)EBC1215522(DE-B1597)210531(OCoLC)853248960(DE-B1597)9783110319774(Au-PeEL)EBL1215522(CaPaEBR)ebr10728880(CaONFJC)MIL503334(EXLCZ)99255000000109680020130709d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition /Nicholas RescherFrankfurt ;New Brunswick Ontos Verlag20111 online resource (107 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-11-031929-2 1-299-72083-8 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: On Certainty -- Chapter 2: Practical Inference in Theoretical Contexts -- Chapter 3: On the Complications of Epistemic Quality -- Chapter 4: Persuasion -- Chapter 5: Apory -- Chapter 6: Cognitive Obligation -- Chapter 7: Semantical Approximation -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Reflexivity and the Limits of Knowledge -- Chapter 9: Issues of Ultimate Explanation -- REFERENCES -- Name Index -- BackmatterOn Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view. CertaintyCognitionCertainty.Cognition.Rescher Nicholas50144MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809431403321On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition3996835UNINA