Nicholas Rescher

Reason and Reality

Realism and Idealism in Pragmatic Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Reason and Reality expounds a pragmatic metaphysics that offers a new approach to this subject's traditional objective of providing us with a secure cognitive grip on the nature of reality. The characteristic nature of this metaphysical approach lies in its commitment to the idea that the requisite security is best and most reliably provided by functional considerations of pragmatic efficacy service the aims and purposes of rational inquiry and effective communication.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780742545069
• ISBN-10: 0742545067
• Artikelnr.: 22466171

Autorenporträt

By Nicholas Rescher

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Real Things: Reality and Its Contrasts Chapter 2 On Quantifying
Knowledge: And the Gulf between Linguistic Truth and Objective Fact Chapter
3 Immediate Experience and Ontology: A Functional Perspective on
Philosophical Realism Chapter 4 Presumptions and Evidentially
Transcendental Concepts: An Idealistic Perspective on Philosophical Realism
Chapter 5 Pragmatic Realism: A Practicalistic Perspective on Philosophical
Realism Chapter 6 Realism and Cognitive Debility: An Epistemic Perspective
on Philosophical Realism Chapter 7 On the Metaphysics and Epistemology of
Laws of Nature:The Inherent Risks of Scientific Empiricism Chapter 8
Pragmatism and Practical Rationality Chapter 9 Name Index