On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition / / Nicholas Rescher

• Autore: Rescher Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (107 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Certainty; Cognition
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: On 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition
• ISBN: 3-11-031977-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809431403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II