Studies in cognitive finitude / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Rescher, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Nicholas Rescher collected papers ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Rescher, Nicholas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS (ON UNREALIZABLE ASPIRATIONS)

Chapter 2: ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE: IGNORANCE AND ERROR

Chapter 3: SCEPTICISM AND FINITUDE

Chapter 4: LIMITS OF COGNITION A LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTH AND OBJECTIVE FACT

Chapter 5: COGNITIVE PROGRESS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS

Chapter 6: AGAINST SCIENTIFIC INSOLUBILIA

Chapter 7: THE PROBLEM OF UNKNOWABLE FACTS

Chapter 8: EPISTEMIC INSOLUBILIA AND COGNITIVE FINITUDE

Chapter 9: CAN COMPUTERS OVERCOME OUR COGNITIVE FINITUDE?

CONCLUSION

NAME INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110326345

3110326345

OCLC:

922945827