- 133 pages
- English
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Studies in Cognitive Finitude
About this book
For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS(ON UNREALIZABLE ASPIRATIONS)
- Chapter 2 - ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE:IGNORANCE AND ERROR
- Chapter 3SCEPTICISM AND FINITUDE
- Chapter 4LIMITS OF COGNITIONA LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THEQUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCYBETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTHAND OBJECTIVE FACT
- Chapter 5COGNITIVE PROGRESS AND ITSCOMPLICATIONS
- Chapter 6AGAINST SCIENTIFIC INSOLUBILIA
- Chapter 7THE PROBLEM OF UNKNOWABLEFACTS
- Chapter 8EPISTEMIC INSOLUBILIA ANDCOGNITIVE FINITUDE
- Chapter 9CAN COMPUTERS OVERCOME OURCOGNITIVE FINITUDE?
- CONCLUSION
- NAME INDEX