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A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980444
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time to engage with issues of philosophical concern: questions of meaning, truth, knowledge, value, action, and ethics. Rescher’s anecdotes touch on a wide range of themes—from logic to epistemology, ethics to metaphysics—and offer much insight into the breadth and depth of philosophical inquiry. This book illustrates the various ways philosophers throughout history have viewed the issues in their field, and how anecdotes can work to inform and encourage philosophical thought.

Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy

Author : Stanley Tweyman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527515060
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy by : Stanley Tweyman

Download or read book Method, Intuition, and Meditation in Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy written by Stanley Tweyman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with Descartes’ efforts in his Meditations to discover the first principles of human knowledge, that is, what must be known before anything else can be known. In order for these principles to be first principles, they cannot be conclusions obtained through deductive reasoning. Further, Descartes insists that these first principles cannot be known through the senses, but only through intuition or meditation, our only cognitive faculties for grasping self-evident first principles. This book provides Descartes’ reasons for rejecting the senses as the source of these first principles, and offers textual support for the role of intuition and meditation in apprehending the first principles of human knowledge. Although the bulk of the book is largely exegetical in nature, the last chapter proceeds more critically to show the failures of Descartes’ approach.

Philosophical Inquiries

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973782
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Inquiries written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to “question the questions.” Rescher sees the need to inquire as an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and shows how philosophy has thus developed in an evolutionary fashion, building upon acquired knowledge and upon itself. In a historical thread that informs and enriches his overview, Rescher recalls the contributions of Aristotle, Plato, Plotinus, Kant, Hegel, Leibniz, Laplace, Bertrand Russell, and others. Among his many topics, Rescher discusses knowledge and the unattainablity of absolutes, skepticism and its self-defeating nature, the limits of science vs. the limits of cognition, refuting reality as mind-independent, and idealism and divining our role in nature. He considers the universe and intelligence as the product of intelligent design, science and religion as non-conflicting and purposeful pursuits, and determinism and other fallacies surrounding the concept of free will. Rescher views morality in its hierarchal structure, its applicability to human coexistence, and its ontological commitment to the enhancement of value for ourselves and our world. He examines questions of authority and the problem of judging past actions or knowledge by present standards. Overall, he argues for philosophy as an unavoidable tool for rational, cogent responses to large questions.

Safety and Reliability. Theory and Applications

Author : Marko Cepin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351809725
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Safety and Reliability. Theory and Applications written by Marko Cepin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications contains the contributions presented at the 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, June 18-22, 2017). The book covers a wide range of topics, including: • Accident and Incident modelling • Economic Analysis in Risk Management • Foundational Issues in Risk Assessment and Management • Human Factors and Human Reliability • Maintenance Modeling and Applications • Mathematical Methods in Reliability and Safety • Prognostics and System Health Management • Resilience Engineering • Risk Assessment • Risk Management • Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis • Structural Reliability • System Reliability, and • Uncertainty Analysis. Selected special sessions include contributions on: the Marie Skłodowska-Curie innovative training network in structural safety; risk approaches in insurance and fi nance sectors; dynamic reliability and probabilistic safety assessment; Bayesian and statistical methods, reliability data and testing; oganizational factors and safety culture; software reliability and safety; probabilistic methods applied to power systems; socio-technical-economic systems; advanced safety assessment methodologies: extended Probabilistic Safety Assessment; reliability; availability; maintainability and safety in railways: theory & practice; big data risk analysis and management, and model-based reliability and safety engineering. Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications will be of interest to professionals and academics working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors including: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Automotive Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Production and Distribution, Environmental Engineering, Information Technology and Telecommunications, Critical Infrastructures, Insurance and Finance, Manufacturing, Marine Industry, Mechanical Engineering, Natural Hazards, Nuclear Engineering, Offshore Oil and Gas, Security and Protection, Transportation, and Policy Making.

Essays in Philosophical Analysis

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975769
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Philosophical Analysis written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the twentieth century; the second part features essays on epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, the theory of historiography, and the logic of temporal concepts. Despite the range of topics, all essays are closely integrated at the methodological level.

Ignorance

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973510
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Ignorance written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as “a boy standing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all underscored before me.” In Ignorance, Nicholas Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ignorance in areas of philosophy, scientific endeavor, and ordinary life. Citing philosophers, theologians, and scientists from Socrates to Steven Hawking, Rescher seeks to uncover the factors that hinder our cognition. Rescher categorizes ignorance as ontologically grounded (rooted in acts of nature-erasure, chaos, and chance-that prevent fact determination), or epistemically grounded (the inadequacy of our information-securing resources). He then defines the basis of ignorance: inaccessible data; statistical fogs; secreted information; past data that have left no trace; future discoveries; future contingencies; vagrant predicates; and superior intelligences. Such impediments set limits to inquiry and mean that while we can always extend our existing knowledge-variability here is infinite-there are things that we will never know. Cognitive finitude also hinders our ability to assimilate more than a certain number of facts. We may acquire additional information, but lack the facility to interpret it. More information does not always increase knowledge; it may point us further down the path toward an erroneous conclusion. In light of these deficiencies, Rescher looks to the role of computers in solving problems and expanding our knowledge base, but finds limits to their reasoning capacity. As Rescher's comprehensive study concludes, ignorance itself is a fertile topic for knowledge, and recognizing the boundaries of our comprehension is where wisdom begins.

Philosophical Standardism

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822957396
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Standardism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Standardism is ideal for bringing one of the field’s preeminent scholars into the classroom. In this novel empirical treatment of fundamental issues in philosophy, Nicholas Rescher propounds an unorthodox approach to philosophical doctrines that is predicated on the idea of standardism.

Process Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973936
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Process Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as “process philosophy.” Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real—process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement's historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as Heracleitus, Leibniz, Bergson, Peirce, William James, and especially A. N. Whitehead.

Luck

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972271
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Luck written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way. In Luck, one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere chance), Nicholas Rescher weaves a colorful tapestry of historical examples, from the use of lots in the Old and New Testaments to Thomas Gataker’s treatise of 1619 on the great English lottery of 1612, from casino gambling to playing the stock market. Because we are creatures of limited knowledge who do and must make decisions in the light of incomplete information, Rescher argues, we are inevitably at the mercy of luck. It behooves us to learn more about it.

Error

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822971151
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Error written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Defines three main categories of error, and provides a historical perspective on error from Greek to modern philosophy.

Galen and the Syllogism

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975610
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Galen and the Syllogism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1966-05-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nicholas Rescher seeks to settle debates about whether Galen originated the fourth figure of the categorical syllogism. For his definitive evidence, Rescher examines Arabic sources, one of which is “On the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism” by twelfth-century mathematician Ibn al-Salah, and is reproduced here in Arabic with an annotated English translation. Rescher also explores the history and importance of the syllogistic figures in the evolution of logic in Islamic and European cultures, and discusses the debate about the actual number of syllogistic figures.

Confessions of a Philosopher

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965059886
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Philosopher written by Bryan Magee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Magee tells the story of his own discovery of philosophy and not only makes it come alive but shows its relevance to daily life. Magee is the Carl Sagan of philosophy, the great popularizer of the subject, and author of a major new introductory history, The Story of Philosophy. This book follows the course of Magee's life, exploring philosophers and ideas as he himself encountered them, introducing all the great figures and their ideas, from the pre-Socratics to Bertrand Russell and Karl Popper, including Wittgenstein, Kant, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, rationalism, utilitarianism, empiricism, and existentialism.--From publisher description.

101 Philosophy Problems

Author : Martin Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415635748
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book 101 Philosophy Problems written by Martin Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Cohen's 101 Philosophy Problems has introduced thousands of readers to philosophy in an entertaining but informative and stimulating way. It is ideal for anyone coming to philosophy for the first time.

Studies in Arabic Philosophy

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975661
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Arabic Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1968-02-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Rescher presents ten essays that offer the thoughts of major Arabic philosophers in history and speak to their origins in Greek philosophy, as well as the subsequent influence of Arabic philosophy on the West. Much of the material is presented for the first time in print. Topics include: the concentric structure of the universe; the concept of existence; the Theory of Temporal Modalities; the Platonic Solids; and several essays on logic.

Aporetics

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973685
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Aporetics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.

The Limits Of Science

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972069
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Limits Of Science written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what we do and can attain. This lies at the core of various debates in the philosophy of science and Rescher’s discussion focuses on the question: how far could science go in principle—what are the theoretical limits on science? He concentrates on what science can discover, not what it should discover. He explores in detail the existence of limits or limitations on scientific inquiry, especially those that, in principle, preclude the full realization of the aims of science, as opposed to those that relate to economic obstacles to scientific progress. Rescher also places his argument within the politics of the day, where "strident calls of ideological extremes surround us," ranging from the exaggeration that "science can do anything"—to the antiscientism that views science as a costly diversion we would be well advised to abandon. Rescher offers a middle path between these two extremes and provides an appreciation of the actual powers and limitations of science, not only to philosophers of science but also to a larger, less specialized audience.

The Strife of Systems

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822976382
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Strife of Systems written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1985-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disagreement of philosophers is notorious. In this book, Rescher develops a theory that accounts for this conflict and shows how the basis for philosophical disagreement roots in divergent 'cognitive values'-values regarding matters such as importance, centrality, and priority. In light of this analysis, Rescher maintains that, despite this inevitable discord, a skeptical or indifferentist reaction to traditional philosophy is not warranted, seeing that genuine value-conflicts are at issue. He argues that philosophy is an important and worthwhile enterprise, notwithstanding its inability to achieve rationally constrained consensus on the issues. Given the nature of the enterprise, consensus is not a realistic goal, and failure to achieve it is not a defect. Accordingly, Rescher argues against the revisionist views proposed by Richard Rorty and Robert Nozick. His discussions are devoted to providing a clear view of why philosophical problems arise and how philosophers address them.