Axiogenesis [[electronic resource] ] : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / / Nicholas Rescher

• Autore: Rescher Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 110
• Soggetto topico: Cosmology; Teleology; Metaphysics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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. Gödel: Noophelia in the Twentieth CenturyBibliography; Name Index; Untitled
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 prospect of improvement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Axiogenesis
• ISBN: 1-282-82011-7; 9786612820113; 0-7391-4934-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785449403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II