Value Reasoning: On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation

ISBN-13: 9783319541389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 147 str.

Nicholas Rescher

Opis

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is-or should be-a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives.

Spis treści

Part I: General Principles

 

Chapter 1:   Value Basics

 

Chapter 2:   Value Attribution

 

Chapter 3:   Rational Choice and Value Complementarity

 

Chapter 4:   Integration Problems

 

Chapter 5:   Rationality Issues

 

Chapter 6:   Rational Choice and Merit Complementarity

 

Chapter 7:   Circularity Issues

 

Part II: Cognitive Evaluation

 

Chapter 8:    Evaluating Cognitive Significance

 

Chapter 9:    Epistemic Evaluation

 

Chapter 10:  Allocating Scientific Credit

 

Chapter 11: Evaluating Contention Tenacity

O autorze

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at be University of Pittsburgh where he has also served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department and a Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science.

Blurb

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is—or should be—a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation.