Infinite Regress: The Theory and History of Varieties of Change

ISBN-13: 9781138510937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 189 str.

Nicholas Rescher

Opis

Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress, and propositional regress. Also discussed is the history of regression stemming from ancient times, to medieval times, to early modern history

Spis treści

Preface
Introduction: The Conception of Infinite Regress
Part 1: Systematic Considerations
1. Regress Theory
2. Some Modes of Vicious Regress
3. Some Modes of Innocuous Regress
4. Circularity and Endless Regress
5. Dispensing with "The Regress of Reasons"
6. Propositional Regresses
Part 2: Historical Considerations
7. The Ancients
8. The Medievals
9. The Early Moderns
10. Kant
11. From Hegel to Dewey
12. Bertrand Russell
13. Gilbert Ryle on Mind and the Free Will Perplex
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Nicholas Rescher