Ideas in process : a study on the development of philosophical concepts / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Series:

Process Thought

Process thought ; v. 22

Process Thought ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Process philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of gene

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter One. IDEAS IN PROCESS

Chapter Two. FOUR MODELS OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE IN PHILOSOPHY

Chapter Three. FREE WILL AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE IDENTITY MODEL

Chapter Four. INTERSUBSTANTIVAL RELATIONS AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMON CORE MODEL

Chapter Five. ANALYTICITY AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMON CORE MODEL

Chapter Six. THE COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE THEMATIC LINKAGE MODEL

Chapter Seven. DIALECTIC ITSELF AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE DIALECTICAL MODEL

Chapter Eight. PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY IN PROCESS-PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-038-8

3-11-032814-3

OCLC:

851970787