Nicholas Rescher

Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition.

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Produktdetails

• American Philosophy Series
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781498563536
• ISBN-10: 1498563538
• Artikelnr.: 49010258

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher is distinguished university professor of philosophy at University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Sensible Conjecture Chapter 2: Imprecision
Chapter 3: Truth-Contextuality and Plausibility Chapter 4: Managing
Imperfect Information Chapter 5: Common Sense Chapter 6: Terminating
Explanatory Regress Chapter 7: Quantitative Epistemology Chapter 8: On
Kinds of Things Chapter 9: Prediction and Knowability Chapter 10: Cognitive
Fashions Chapter 11: Problems of Absolute Truth Chapter 12: Unethical
Beliefs, Reprehensible Opinions Chapter 13: Culpable Ignorance Chapter 14:
Epistemic Triage Chapter 15: Inconceivable Possibilities Chapter 16:
Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things Chapter 17: Conclusion