Philosophical episodes / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particularized ideas and issues: studies that deal not with entire continents but with mere reefs and estuaries. The present essays are of this limited nature. Their aim is less to give a view of the overall lay of the land than to give a tranistic view of the diversity of the landscape. The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity the essays exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM

Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM

Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY

Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT

Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY

Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE

Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC

Chapter Eight: KANT'S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method)

Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS

Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY

Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Chapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED

Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL'S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY

Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions)

Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES

Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution)

REFERENCES

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-123-6

3-11-031993-4

OCLC:

851970962