On Rules and Principles

ISBN-13: 9783110319255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 220 str.

Nicholas Rescher

Opis

The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher's longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Accordingly, the role of principles in human affairs is crucial and ubiquitous. Principology, the theory of principles--underdeveloped through it may be--is accordingly bound to find a significant place in the sphere of philosophical inquiry regarding matters of thought and action.