Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 184
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The core of pragmatism lies in the concept of functional efficacy-of utility in short. And epistemic pragmatism accordingly focuses on the utility of our devices and practices in relation to the aims and purposes of the cognitive enterprise-answering questions, resolving puzzlement, guiding action. The present book revolves around this theme. All papers in this book bear on epistemological topics which have preoccupied Nicholas Rescher for many years. Much as with the thematic structure of this book, this interest expanded from an initial concern with the exact sciences, to encompass the epistemology of the human sciences, and ultimately the epistemology of philosophy itself.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1EPISTEMIC PRAGMATISM
Chapter 2LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM
Chapter 3ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS
Chapter 4ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS
Chapter 5THE UNEASY UNION OF IDEALITY ANDPRAGMATISM IN INQUIRY
Chapter 6ON INCONSISTENCY AND PROVISIONALACCEPTANCE
Chapter 7ON REALISM AND THE PROBLEM OFTRANSPARENT FACTS
Chapter 8ON FALLACIES OF AGGREGATION
Chapter 9LEIBNIZ AND THE CONDITIONS OF IDENTITY
WORLDLY WOES:THE TROUBLE WITH POSSIBLE WORLDS
Chapter 11TRIGRAPHS: A RESOURCE FOR ILLUSTRATIONIN PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 12FRAGMENTATION AND DISINTEGRATION INPHILOSOPHY
NAME INDEX

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