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Axiogenesis : an essay in metaphysical optimalism /
Axiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultimate reason is behind the world's existence and nature. Despite drawing on various strands of neo-Platonic thought, Nicholas Rescher crafts an argument for a metaphysical theory grounded in evaluative c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ultimate questions
- Ultimate answers
- Optimalism and its turn to axiology
- Intelligence and rationality as pivots for optimality: the idea of noophelia
- Abandoning efficient causality for axiotropism
- Meeting objections to optimalism
- On the improvability of the world
- Axiogenesis and intelligent design
- Intelligence in an evolutionary perspective
- Is noophelic axiogenesis unscientific?
- Leibnizian physics as a case study
- Gödel: noophelia in the twentieth century.