Epistemic merit : and other essays on human knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heusenstamm [Germany] : ontos, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 they exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up through conceptual clarification.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Epistemic Merit

Chapter 2: Is Cognitive Self-Criticism Rationally Possible?

Chapter 3: The Problem of Future Knowledge

Chapter 4: Diminishing Returns

Chapter 5: Practical vs. Theoretical Reason

Chapter 6: On Evaluating Scientific Theories

Chapter 7: Authority

Chapter 8: Cognitive Diffusion

Chapter 9: Modeling in Pragmatic Perspective

Chapter 10: Historical Perspectives on the Systematization of Knowledge

Chapter 11: Communicative Approximation in Philosophy

Chapter 12: Particular Philosophies vs. Philosophy at Large

Chapter 13: Ultimate Explanation

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-178-3

3-11-032921-2

OCLC:

853653835