Studies in metaphilosophy / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Rescher, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Nicholas Rescher collected papers ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While philosophers from Plato to Kant and beyond have discussed the mission and methodology of philosophy, this area of deliberation has only recently been acknowledged as a distinctive branch of philosophy as such, duly entitled metaphilosophy. There are, as yet, very few books on the subject so that the present volume joins a rather select group. Professor Rescher has published in the field for some thirty years and this book gathers together a representative sampling of his contributions. Taken together these pieces convey an instructive overview of the field, as well as vividly conveying their author's take on the key issues that constitute its problem domain.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY

Chapter 2: ON FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR LEGITIMATION

Chapter 3: ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION (APORETIC METHOD AND THE HEGELIAN VISION)

Chapter 4: THE PRICE OF AN ULTIMATE THEORY

Chapter 5: PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY

Chapter 6: THE FALLACY OF RESPECT NEGLECT

Chapter 7: PHILOSOPHICAL DISAGREEMENT: AN ESSAY TOWARDS ORIENTATIONAL PLURALISM IN METAPHILOSOPHY

Chapter 8: IS PHILOSOPHY A GUIDE TO LIFE? (On the Problematic Nature of "Applied Philosophy")

Chapter 9: PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES

Chapter 10: THE INTERPRETATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS

Chapter 11: REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS IN PHILOSOPHY

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110326420

3110326426

OCLC:

922945610