Rescher On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-031977-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 94 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Chapter One ON CERTAINTY;9
3;Chapter Two PRACTICAL INFERENCE IN THEORETICAL CONTEXTS;13
4;Chapter Three ON THE COMPLICATIONS OF EPISTEMIC QUALITY;17
5;Chapter Four PERSUASION;27
6;Chapter Five APORY;33
7;Chapter Six COGNITIVE OBLIGATION;45
8;Chapter Seven SEMANTICAL APPROXIMATION;53
9;Chapter Eight COGNITIVE REFLEXIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE;65
10;Chapter Nine ISSUES OF ULTIMATE EXPLANATION;83
11;REFERENCES;97
12;Name Index;101