Nature and understanding : the metaphysics and method of science / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Metaphysics and method of science

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2003.

Summary:

Rescher explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity.

Contents:

Introduction: Metaphysical Principles in Erotetic Perspective

1. The Systematicity of Nature

2. The Complexity of Nature and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things

3. Order in Nature, Multifaceted Reality, and Contextualistic Realism

4. The Price of an Ultimate Theory

5. Ramifications of Realism

6. Intimations of Idealism

7. The Intelligibility of Nature

8. Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-169878-4

0-19-926182-2