Being and value : and other philosophical essays /

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Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher's characteristic way of illuminating time...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rescher, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
Philosophy, American > 20th century.
Philosophie américaine > 20e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophy, American
Philosophie.
Philosophie > Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Being and value : on the prospect of optimalism
  • On evolution and intelligent design
  • Mind and matter
  • Fallacies regarding free will
  • Sophisticating naïve realism
  • Taxonomic complexity and the laws of nature
  • Practical vs. theoretical reason
  • Pragmatism as a growth industry
  • Cost benefit epistemology
  • Quantifying quality
  • Explanatory surdity
  • Can philosophy be objective?
  • On ontology in cognitive perspective
  • Plenum theory (essay written jointly with Patrick Grim)
  • Onometrics (on referential analysis in philosophy).

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