Rescher Wishful Thinking And Other Philosophical Reflections

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032172-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 109 Seiten

During 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While his forays of this kind have usually been issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the present case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, these exemplify a problem-oriented method in the treatment of philosophical issues that is characteristic of Rescher's philosophical modus operandi and inherent in its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view. For Rescher usually more concerned with what should be said about a philosophical question than with what X, Y, and Z have said about it, and he inclined to address issues of the latter sort primarily as a means for addressing the former.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rescher, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;4
2;PREFACE;5
3;Chapter One WISHFUL THINKING;6
4;Chapter Two AGENCY AND THE FUTURE;16
5;Chapter Three MIND-MATTER PARTNERSHIP;20
6;Chapter Four ON MORALITY AND ETHICS;36
7;Chapter Five QUASI-OBJECTS;48
8;Chapter Six LEGISLATED QUANTITIES;52
9;Chapter Seven TOTALIZATION AND ITS PROBLEMS;62
10;Chapter Eight PHILOSOPHICALCOUNTERARGUMENTATION;68
11;Chapter Nine ORIENTATIONAL PLURALISM;74
12;Chapter Ten ANALYTICITY RECONSIDERED;84
13;Chapter Eleven ON ISSUES OF EXPONENTIALGROWTH;96
14;BIBLIOGRAPHY;104
15;NAME INDEX;108
16;ABOUT THE AUTHOR;112

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984. In November 2007 Nicholas Rescher was awarded by the American Catholic Philosophical Association with the "Aquinas Medal"