Philosophical Clarifications: Studies Illustrating the Methodology of Philosophical Elucidation

ISBN-13: 9783030152680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 241 str.

Nicholas Rescher

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Preface

PART I: ISSUES OF PHILOSOPHY

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1:    On Philosophical Deliberation

 

Chapter 2:    On Philosophical Historiography

 

Chapter 3:    Pragmatic Perspectives

 

PART II: ISSUES OF KNOWLEDGE

 

Chapter 4:    Imprecise Boundaries

 

Chapter 5:    Conjecture

 

Chapter 6:    The Limits of Language

 

Chapter 7:    Quantitative Epistemology

 

Chapter 8:    Issues of Explanation

 

Chapter 9:    Does Inference to the Best Explanation Work?

 

Chapter 10:  Contingency

 

 

PART III: ISSUES OF PRACTICE

 

Chapter 11: Luck

 

Chapter 12:  The Protagoras Perplex

 

Chapter 13:  Acknowledging Scientific Contributions

 

Chapter 14:  Personal vs. Social Utilitarianism

 

Chapter 15:  On Excuses for Moral Obligation

 

Chapter 16:  On the Philosophy of Religion

O autorze

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has well over one hundred books to his credit. Fourteen books about Rescher’s philosophy have been published in five languages.

Blurb

This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. Consisting of three sections, it first deals with the nature of philosophizing itself and seeks to illustrate the project from the angle of the pragmatic tradition. The second section is devoted to issues of knowledge and how the cognitive project goes about producing results that are cogent and objective.  The third and closing section considers how the ideas and perspectives of these considerations can be applied and implemented in various matters of personal judgment and practice.