Rescher Is Philosophy Dispensable?

And Other Philosophical Essays
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032116-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 117 Seiten

During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays of this kind have usually issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the preset case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, they manifest a uniformity of treatment and method in a way that is characteristic of my philosophical modus operandi and inherent is its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view.' Nicholas Rescher

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;PREFACE;9
3;Chapter 1IS PHILOSOPHY DISPENSABLE?(AN APORETIC ANALYSIS);10
4;Chapter 2FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR PLACEIN PHILOSOPHY;16
5;Chapter 3THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE ANDITS PROBLEMS;37
6;Chapter 4THE LIMITS OF NATURALISM(NATURE AND CULTURE INPERSPECTIVAL DUALITY);46
7;Chapter 5ON UNIVERSALS, NATURAL KINDS,AND LAWS OF NATURE;52
8;Chapter 6AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OFEPISTEMIC DISPARITY;62
9;Chapter 7SELF-SUBSTANTIATING STATEMENTS;69
10;Chapter 8REGRET;78
11;Chapter 9THE PROBLEM OF EVIL;90
12;Chapter 10RATIONALITY, SELF-INTEREST,ALTRUISM, AND OBLIGATION;95
13;Chapter 11WHAT IS PRAGMATISM?;101
14;Chapter 12THE TRANSFORMATION OFAMERICAN PHILOSOPHY;108
15;NAME INDEX;125