Is Philosophy Dispensable?: And Other Philosophical Essays

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays of this kind have usually issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the preset case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, they manifest a uniformity of treatment and method in a way that is characteristic of my philosophical modus operandi and inherent is its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view.' Nicholas Rescher

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
PREFACE
Chapter 1IS PHILOSOPHY DISPENSABLE?(AN APORETIC ANALYSIS)
Chapter 2FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR PLACEIN PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 3THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE ANDITS PROBLEMS
Chapter 4THE LIMITS OF NATURALISM(NATURE AND CULTURE INPERSPECTIVAL DUALITY)
Chapter 5ON UNIVERSALS, NATURAL KINDS,AND LAWS OF NATURE
Chapter 6AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OFEPISTEMIC DISPARITY
Chapter 7SELF-SUBSTANTIATING STATEMENTS
Chapter 8REGRET
Chapter 9THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Chapter 10RATIONALITY, SELF-INTEREST,ALTRUISM, AND OBLIGATION
Chapter 11WHAT IS PRAGMATISM?
Chapter 12THE TRANSFORMATION OFAMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
NAME INDEX