Epistemetrics

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-86120-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Epistemetrics is not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, does not have a monopoly on knowledge. It is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole of it. Nicholas Rescher's endeavor to quantify knowledge is not only of interest in itself, but is also instructive in bringing into sharper relief the nature of and the explanatory rationale for the limits that unavoidably confront our efforts to advance the frontiers of knowledge. In particular, his book demonstrates the limitations of human knowledge and will be of great value to scholars working in this area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Asking for more than truth: Duhem's law of cognitive complementarity; 2. Kant's conception of knowledge as systemized information; 3. Spencer's law of cognitive development; 4. Gibbon's Law of logarithmic returns; 5. Adams's thesis on exponential growth; 6. Quality retardation; 7. How much can be known? A Leibnizian perspective on the quantitative discrepancy between linguistic truth and objective fact; 8. On the limits of knowledge: a Kantian perspective on cognitive finitude.

Über Autor(innen)

Rescher, Nicholas
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also Co-Chair of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has received fellowships from the Ford, Guggenheim and National Science Foundations. Author of over one hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, he is the recipient of six honorary degrees from universities on three continents and was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.