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Book Synopsis Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about a decade Nicholas Rescher directed the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science and he has published instructive studies in this field since the 1950’s. Some dozen of the contributions to the field are published in the present volume, and they combine to illustrate his characteristic approach of blending empirical data with philosophical theorizing.
Book Synopsis Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unfolds a line of thought that runs as follows: A universe in which intelligent beings can evolve and thrive through processes of natural selection must, in substantial measure, be so constituted as though an intelligent agent or agency had designed it. If a world is to allow intelligent beings to emerge by natural processes, then its mode of operation must itself exhibit the definitive characteristics of an as-if-designed manifold of natural process. Because intelligence itself will figure at or near the top of the value-scale of an intelligent being, it is evident that any universe created by an intelligent agent or agency is bound to prioritize the needs and interests of intelligent agents. Its arrangements will accordingly conduce towards an intelligence-geared optimalism that envisions a nature whose operations foster the realization of optimal conditions for the functioning of intelligence. The world's intelligibility should accordingly occasion no surprise once one recognizes that intelligent beings exist within it.
Download or read book Axiogenesis written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Rescher's book Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism is a detailed exposition of axiogenerts: the philosophical theory seeking to explain the world's facts on the basis of evaluative considerations. In classical antiquity, this theory was espoused by Plato (in the Timaeus) and neo-Platonic tradition; in early modern times, it was revived by Leibniz and continued to find favor in the development of rational mechanics from Maupertuis to William Hamilton. However, since then the principles behind axiogenesis and similar theories have fallen out of fashion. This book is therefore unique in that it argues in detail that this metaphysical approach still has traction and endeavors to formulate the theory in a manner that makes it available as a live option for contemporary thinkers. Advanced students of philosophy and professionals in this field, as well as anyone interested in the issue of speculative metaphysics, will find Rescher's contemporary refashioning of axiogenesis a distinctly compelling read.
Download or read book Rescher Studies written by Robert Almeder and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy, historical and systematic alike. In this extraordinary volume, two dozen scholars join in offering penetrating discussions of various facets of Rescher’s investigations. The result is an instructively critical panorama of the many-faceted contributions of this important American philosopher. Born in Germany in 1928, Nicholas Rescher came to the U.S. at the age of nine. He is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he has also served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department and as director (and currently chairman) of the Center for Philosophy of Science. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style. His work represents a many-sided approach to fundamental philosophical issues that weaves together threads of thought from continental idealism and American pragmatism. And apart from this larger program Rescher has made various specific contributions to logic (the conception autodescriptive systems of many-sided logic), the history of logic (the medieval Arabic theory of modal syllogistic), to the theory of knowledge (epistemetrics as a quantitative approach in theoretical epistemology), and to the philosophy of science (the theory of a logarithmic retardation of scientific progress). Rescher has also worked in the area of futuristics, and along with Olaf Helmer and Norman Dalkey is co-inaugurator of the so-called Delphi method of forecasting. Ten books about Rescher’s philosophy have been published in four languages. Rescher earned his doctorate at Princeton in 1951 while still at the age of twenty-two—a record for Princeton’s Department of Philosophy. He has served as a President of the American Philosophical Association, of the American Catholic Philosophy Association, of the American G. W. Leibniz Society, of the C. S. Peirce Society, and of the American Metaphysical Society. He was the founder of the American Philosophical Quarterly. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Royal Society of Canada, the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, he has been awarded fellowships by the Ford, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundations. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated from English into other languages, he is the recipient of eight honorary degrees from universities on three continents. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984, the Belgian Prix Mercier in 2005, and the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 2007.
Book Synopsis Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy’s all-time greats. The subject-matter topic being addressed differs significantly, but in each case there is an attempt to apply mathematical methods and perspectives to the solution of a key philosophical issue in a way that throws instructive light upon it. On this basis it emerges that the question “Are mathematical methods useful in philosophy?” finds a suggestive response in the fact that over two millennia key figures in the history of the subject have indeed thought so. And they have substantiated this view not so much by abstract argumentation on the basis of general principles, but by making this point through actual practice.
Book Synopsis Epistemological Studies by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Epistemological Studies written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues. They form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge.
Book Synopsis Studies in Epistemology by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Studies in Epistemology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Studies in Epistemology".
Book Synopsis Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology".
Book Synopsis Philosophical Textuality by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Philosophical Textuality written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophizing is an activity—a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures. But philosophy itself—the product of philosophy—is an abstraction which, as such, exists in its own way. Like chemistry or poetry, the things it deals with may be ever so real, but it itself exists in the realm of textuality. However the nature of philosophy’s textual domain is seldom studied as such. The present discussion will take one very small step towards filling this gap.
Book Synopsis Is Philosophy Dispensable? by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Is Philosophy Dispensable? written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays of this kind have usually issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the preset case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, they manifest a uniformity of treatment and method in a way that is characteristic of my philosophical modus operandi and inherent is its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view.' Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Free Will written by Nicholaus Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature, listing some five thousand items ranging from classical antiquity to the present.
Download or read book Dialectics written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book’s deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards.
Book Synopsis Issues in the Philosophy of Religion by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Issues in the Philosophy of Religion written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years Nicholas Rescher has published various essays on religious issues from a philosophical point of view. The chapters of the present volume collect these together, joining to them four further pieces which appear here for the first time (Chapters 3, 7, and 8). While these studies certainly do not constitute a system of religious philosophy, they do combine to give a vivid picture of a well-defined point of view on the subject-the viewpoint of a Roman Catholic philosopher who, in the longstanding manner of this tradition, seeks to harmonize the commitments of faith with the fruits of inquiry proceeding under the auspices of reason.
Book Synopsis Wishful Thinking And Other Philosophical Reflections by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Wishful Thinking And Other Philosophical Reflections written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While his forays of this kind have usually been issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the present case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, these exemplify a problem-oriented method in the treatment of philosophical issues that is characteristic of Rescher's philosophical modus operandi and inherent in its endeavors to treat classical issues from novel points of view. For Rescher usually more concerned with what should be said about a philosophical question than with what X, Y, and Z have said about it, and he inclined to address issues of the latter sort primarily as a means for addressing the former.
Book Synopsis On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Explorations by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book Philosophical Explorations written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity they exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification.
Book Synopsis On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays by : Nicholas Rescher
Download or read book On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in addressing philosophical issues via a mixture of historical contextualization, analytical scrutiny, and common-sensical concern. Their interest, such as it is, lies not just in what they do but in how they do it.
