Reason, Method, and Value
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Reason, Method, and Value

A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher

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eBook - PDF

Reason, Method, and Value

A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher

About this book

Nicholas Rescher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in philosophy, writing on many different areas from logic to philosophy of language, epistemology, pragmatism, ethics and political philosophy, and metaphilosophy. Reason, Method, and Value: A Reader on the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher offers a selection of Rescher's writings over a span of decades representing the core of his prodigious research interests in six key areas. Each section of the *Reader* is accompanied by a compact critical introduction written by a leading philosophical scholar with spezial expertise in Rescher's philosophy, and the volume opens with an appreciative introduction written by the editor and a concluding retrospective by Rescher, looking back over his oeuvre and explaining connecting themes and the unity of system contained in this extensive body of work. Taken together, the volume encapsulates the heart of Rescher's impressive lifelong contributions to philosophy between two covers, in a single volume that provides a solid overview of his thought while serving to direct readers to the corpus of Rescher's writings for amore complete picture.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110328660
eBook ISBN
9783110329056

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. NICHOLAS RESCHER’S SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY IntroductionDale Jacquette
  4. Part I THEORY OF INQUIRY
  5. Part II LOGIC AND PARADOX
  6. Part III SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS
  7. Part IV METAPHYSICS
  8. Part V ETHICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
  9. Part VI PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION
  10. BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER