Axiogenesis : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Teleology.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Axiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultimate reason is behind the world's existence and nature. Despite drawing on various strands of neo-Platonic thought, Nicholas Rescher crafts an argument for a metaphysical theory grounded in evaluative considerations that is undeniably unique. With a keen intellectualism, it defends the idea that this actual world of ours represents a possibility that is_realistically speaking_beyond the prospect of improvement.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Ultimate Questions; Chapter 2. Ultimate Answers; Chapter 3. Optimalism and Its Turn to Axiology; Chapter 4. Intelligence and Rationality as Pivots for Optimality: The Idea of Noophelia; Chapter 5. Abandoning Efficient Causality for Axiotropism; Chapter 6. Meeting Objections to Optimalism; Chapter 7. On the Improvability of the World; Chapter 8. Axiogenesis and Intelligent Design; Chapter 9. Intelligence in an Evolutionary Perspective; Chapter 10. Is Noophelic Axiogenesis Unscientific?; Chapter 11. Leibnizian Physics as a Case Study

Chapter 12. Gödel: Noophelia in the Twentieth CenturyBibliography; Name Index; Untitled

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-20344-5

1-282-82011-7

9786612820113

0-7391-4934-2

OCLC:

680036293