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Autore: |
Rescher Nicholas
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Titolo: |
Axiogenesis [[electronic resource] ] : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / / Nicholas Rescher
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Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina: | 110 |
Soggetto topico: | Cosmology |
Teleology | |
Metaphysics | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910459056803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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