Epistemic merit : and other essays on human knowledge / / Nicholas Rescher
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| Autore: |
Rescher Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Epistemic merit : and other essays on human knowledge / / Nicholas Rescher
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| Pubblicazione: | Heusenstamm [Germany], : ontos, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 121 |
| Soggetto topico: | Knowledge, Theory of |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1: Epistemic Merit -- Chapter 2: Is Cognitive Self-Criticism Rationally Possible? -- Chapter 3: The Problem of Future Knowledge -- Chapter 4: Diminishing Returns -- Chapter 5: Practical vs. Theoretical Reason -- Chapter 6: On Evaluating Scientific Theories -- Chapter 7: Authority -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Diffusion -- Chapter 9: Modeling in Pragmatic Perspective -- Chapter 10: Historical Perspectives on the Systematization of Knowledge -- Chapter 11: Communicative Approximation in Philosophy -- Chapter 12: Particular Philosophies vs. Philosophy at Large -- Chapter 13: Ultimate Explanation |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity they exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up through conceptual clarification. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Epistemic merit |
| ISBN: | 3-86838-178-3 |
| 3-11-032921-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910955379103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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