Rescher On Rules and Principles

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032174-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher’s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Accordingly, the role of principles in human affairs is crucial and ubiquitous. Principology, the theory of principles—underdeveloped through it may be—is accordingly bound to find a significant place in the sphere of philosophical inquiry regarding matters of thought and action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Chapter 1 RULES;11
2;Chapter 2 RULE CONFLICTS, HIGHER-ORDER RULES, AND RULES OF REASON;25
3;Chapter 3 FUNCTIONAL HIERARCHIES;37
4;Chapter 4 JUDGMENT AND THE LIMITED REACH OF PROCEDURAL RULES;53
5;Chapter 5 RULES, THE SOCIAL ORDER, AND MORALITY;63
6;Chapter 6 PRINCIPLES: THEIR NATURE AND MISSION;81
7;Chapter 7 FUNCTIONAL HIERARCHIES AGAIN;93
8;Chapter 8 PRINCIPLES OF RATIONAL INQUIRY;101
9;Chapter 9 THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON;115
10;Chapter 10 PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES;131
11;Chapter 11 PRINCIPLES IN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY;157
12;Chapter 12 LEIBNIZIAN PHYSICS AS A CASE STUDY;167
13;Chapter 13 MORAL PRINCIPLES;197
14;CODA;217
15;References;219
16;Name Index;227