Being and value : and other philosophical essays / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, American--20th century.

Philosophy, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher's characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship. The chapter of the book are as follows: Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating Naïve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Content

PREFACE

Chapter 1: BEING AND VALUE

Chapter 2: ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Chapter 3: MIND AND MATTER

Chapter 4: FALLACIES REGARDING FREE WILL

Chapter 5: SOPHISTICATING NAÏVE REALISM

Chapter 6: TAXONOMIC COMPLEXITY AND THE LAWS OF NATURE

Chapter 7: PRACTICAL VS. THEORETICAL REASON

Chapter 8: PRAGMATISM AS A GROWTH INDUSTRY

Chapter 9: COST-BENEFIT EPISTEMOLOGY

Chapter 10: QUANTIFYING QUALITY (ON THE THEORY OF ELITES)

Chapter 11: EXPLANATORY SURDITY

Chapter 12: CAN PHILOSOPHY BE OBJECTIVE?

Chapter 13: ON ONTOLOGY IN COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 14: PLENUM THEORY

Chapter 15: ONOMETRICS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Name Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-938793-88-0

3-11-032134-3

OCLC:

854569279