On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Certainty.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1: On Certainty

Chapter 2: Practical Inference in Theoretical Contexts

Chapter 3: On the Complications of Epistemic Quality

Chapter 4: Persuasion

Chapter 5: Apory

Chapter 6: Cognitive Obligation

Chapter 7: Semantical Approximation

Chapter 8: Cognitive Reflexivity and the Limits of Knowledge

Chapter 9: Issues of Ultimate Explanation

REFERENCES

Name Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-105-8

3-11-031977-2

OCLC:

851972068