Nicholas Rescher

Minding Matter

And Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The studies collected here are united both by a common methodology of probative investigation and by their common purpose of providing instructive insight into a varied spectrum of important philosophical issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780742512696
• ISBN-10: 074251269X
• Artikelnr.: 30884725

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. A former president of the American Philosophical Association, he is an honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has held visiting lectureship at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg. As the author of more than eighty works ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Scholarship in 1984.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 On Philosophizing and Metaphilosophy Chapter 3
The Rise and Fall of Analytic Philosophy Chapter 4 End-of-the-Century
Philosophizing: A Return to Systems? Chapter 5 Who Has Won the Big Battles
of Twentieth-Century Philosophy? Chapter 6 Perspectives on Nature in
American Thought Part 7 On Values and Human Affairs Chapter 8 Nomic
Hierarchies and Problems of Relativism Chapter 9 Is Reasoning about Values
Viciously Circular? Chapter 10 Homo Optans: On the Human Condition and the
Burden of Choice Chapter 11 Risking Democracy: Some Reflections on
Contemporary Problems of Political Decision Part 12 Bibliography Part 13
Index