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On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Rescher

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
107
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter One ON CERTAINTY
Chapter Two PRACTICAL INFERENCE IN THEORETICAL CONTEXTS
Chapter Three ON THE COMPLICATIONS OF EPISTEMIC QUALITY
Chapter Four PERSUASION
Chapter Five APORY
Chapter Six COGNITIVE OBLIGATION
Chapter Seven SEMANTICAL APPROXIMATION
Chapter Eight COGNITIVE REFLEXIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
Chapter Nine ISSUES OF ULTIMATE EXPLANATION
REFERENCES
Name Index

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