On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition:
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1. Verfasser: Rescher, Nicholas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2011
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Beschreibung:Preface; Chapter One ON CERTAINTY; Chapter Two PRACTICAL INFERENCE IN THEORETICAL CONTEXTS; Chapter Three ON THE COMPLICATIONS OF EPISTEMIC QUALITY; Chapter Four PERSUASION; Chapter Five APORY; Chapter Six COGNITIVE OBLIGATION; Chapter Seven SEMANTICAL APPROXIMATION; Chapter Eight COGNITIVE REFLEXIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE; Chapter Nine ISSUES OF ULTIMATE EXPLANATION; REFERENCES; Name Index
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
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