Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 222
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher’s characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship.

The chapter of the book are as follows:
Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating Naïve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy)

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
PREFACE
Chapter 1BEING AND VALUEOn the Prospects of Optimalism
Chapter 2ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENTDESIGN
Chapter 3MIND AND MATTER
Chapter 4FALLACIES REGARDING FREEWILL
Chapter 5SOPHISTICATING NAÏVE REALISM
Chapter 6TAXONOMIC COMPLEXITY AND THELAWS OF NATURE
Chapter 7PRACTICAL VS. THEORETICALREASON
Chapter 8PRAGMATISM AS A GROWTHINDUSTRY
Chapter 9COST-BENEFIT EPISTEMOLOGY
Chapter 10QUANTIFYING QUALITY(ON THE THEORY OF ELITES)
Chapter 11EXPLANATORY SURDITY
Chapter 12CAN PHILOSOPHY BE OBJECTIVE?
Chapter 13ON ONTOLOGY IN COGNITIVEPERSPECTIVE
Chapter 14PLENUM THEORY[Essay written jointly with Patrick Grim]
Chapter 15ONOMETRICSOn Referential Analysis in Philosophy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Name Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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