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Metaphysical Perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On the mission of philosophy
  • Ultimate questions
  • World views
  • Terminological contextuality
  • On contingency and necessity
  • Randomness and reason
  • Issues of self-reference and paradox
  • Explanation and the principle of sufficient reason
  • Intelligent design revisited in the light of evolutionary neo-Platonism
  • What if things were different?
  • On the improvability of the world
  • Consciousness
  • Control
  • Free will in the light of process theory
  • Personhood
  • The metaphysics of moral obligation
  • Empathy, shared experience, and other minds
  • Philosophy as an inexact science
  • Philosophy's involvement with transcendental issues
  • Religious variation and the rationale of belief.