Is philosophy dispensable? : and other philosophical essays / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays of this kind have usually issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the preset case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, they manifest a uniformity of treatment and method in a way that is characteristic of my philosophical modus operandi and inherent is its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view.' Nicholas Rescher

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: IS PHILOSOPHY DISPENSABLE? (AN APORETIC ANALYSIS)

Chapter 2: FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 3: THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE AND ITS PROBLEMS

Chapter 4: THE LIMITS OF NATURALISM (NATURE AND CULTURE IN PERSPECTIVAL DUALITY)

Chapter 5: ON UNIVERSALS, NATURAL KINDS, AND LAWS OF NATURE

Chapter 6: AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY

Chapter 7: SELF-SUBSTANTIATING STATEMENTS

Chapter 8: REGRET

Chapter 9: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

Chapter 10: RATIONALITY, SELF-INTEREST, ALTRUISM, AND OBLIGATION

Chapter 11: WHAT IS PRAGMATISM?

Chapter 12: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

NAME INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-032116-5

OCLC:

922945688