Epistemic Merit: And other Essays on Human Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 150
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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