E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten
Rescher Philosophical Episodes
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-031993-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-11-031993-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particularized ideas and issues: studies that deal not with entire continents but with mere reefs and estuaries. The present essays are of this limited nature. Their aim is less to give a view of the overall lay of the land than to give a tranistic view of the diversity of the landscape. The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity the essays exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification.
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1;CONTENTS;5
2;PREFACE;7
3;Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM;9
4;Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM;17
5;Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY;23
6;Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT;31
7;Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY;35
8;Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE;41
9;Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC;65
10;Chapter Eight: KANT’S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method);85
11;Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS;97
12;Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY;113
13;Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS;121
14;Chapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED;137
15;Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL’S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY;163
16;Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions);189
17;Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES;197
18;Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution);201
19;REFERENCES;203
