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  • Metaphysical Perspectives

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the architecture of nature at large, (2) ourselves as nature's denizens and our potential for learning ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ignorance

    (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as "a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me."In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Theory of Categories

    Key Instruments of Human Understanding

    de Dr. Patrick Grim, Dr. Nicholas Rescher ...
    Categorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world—indeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal instrument for scientific systemization, featured as a basis for the philosophical understanding of reality since Aristotle, but classificatory concepts of sorts, types and natural kinds inevitably pervade our ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Feedback Loops

    Pragmatism about Science and Technology

    de Anne C. Fitzpatrick, Ronald Laymon, Nicholas Rescher, Ivan Guajardo, Thomas Staley, Brandiff R. Caron, Peter Kroes, Joseph C. Pitt, Allan Franklin, James H. Collier ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Understanding Reality

    Metaphysics in Epistemological Perspective

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    The book sees to show that the present discussion so unfolds as to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. The ultimate explanation of its order is as something that also provides for its reason for being. Step by step, a train of thought unfolds to indicate that Reality both exists and has the nature it does for good reason, and ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Fairness

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple. The principle is often elusive and subject to confusion, even in institutions of law, usage, and custom. In Fairness, Nicholas Rescher aims to liberate this concept from misunderstandings by showing how its definitive characteristics prevent it from being absorbed by such related conceptions as paternalistic benevolence, radical ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Free Will

    A Philosophical Reappraisal

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans have free will, Rescher first examines what exactly free will is and how it should function. While the literature on the subject of free will is vast, a good deal still remains to be done to avert obscurity and confusion. Rescher leads the ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Value Reasoning

    On the Pragmatic Rationality of Evaluation

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is—or should be—a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation. ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Philosophical I

    Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

    de Nicholas Rescher, Sandra Harding, Douglas Kellner, Nancey Murphy, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman, Bat-Ami Bar On, John J. Stuhr, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code, John Lachs, Paul C. Taylor, Charles W. Mills, Nancy Tuana ...
    Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should be kept separate from the personal experience of philosophers. Each contributor traces the ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Luck

    The Brilliant Randomness Of Everyday Life

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way.In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Epistemic Aphorisms

    A Primer of Epistemology via Maxims

    de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical and familiar (knowledge and justified true belief, and the problem of induction) to the unusual and often neglected (what alien science might look like, the ethics of epistemology, and the limits of conceptualization). In particular, it addresses questions in epistemology that are not generally asked, ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD

  • What If?

    Thought Experimentation in Philosophy

    Edición de Nicholas Rescher ...
    Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form. Nicholas Rescher's What If? undertakes a systematic survey of the role and utility of thought experiments in philosophy. After surveying the historical issues, Rescher examines the principles involved, and ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD