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Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Description: 1 online resource : Num. figsContent type:
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  • 9783110318920
  • 9783110319057
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  • B832 -- R47 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: EPISTEMIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 2: LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 3: ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS -- Chapter 4: ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS -- Chapter 5: THE UNEASY UNION OF IDEALITY AND PRAGMATISM IN INQUIRY -- Chapter 6: ON INCONSISTENCY AND PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE -- Chapter 7: ON REALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPARENT FACTS -- Chapter 8: ON FALLACIES OF AGGREGATION -- Chapter 9: LEIBNIZ AND THE CONDITIONS OF IDENTITY -- Chapter 10: WORLDLY WOES: THE TROUBLE WITH POSSIBLE WORLDS -- Chapter 11: TRIGRAPHS: A RESOURCE FOR ILLUSTRATION IN PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 12: FRAGMENTATION AND DISINTEGRATION IN PHILOSOPHY (Its Grounds and Its Implications) -- NAME INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary: The core of pragmatism lies in the concept of functional efficacy-of utility in short. And epistemic pragmatism accordingly focuses on the utility of our devices and practices in relation to the aims and purposes of the cognitive enterprise-answering questions, resolving puzzlement, guiding action. The present book revolves around this theme. All papers in this book bear on epistemological topics which have preoccupied Nicholas Rescher for many years. Much as with the thematic structure of this book, this interest expanded from an initial concern with the exact sciences, to encompass the epistemology of the human sciences, and ultimately the epistemology of philosophy itself.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: EPISTEMIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 2: LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 3: ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS -- Chapter 4: ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS -- Chapter 5: THE UNEASY UNION OF IDEALITY AND PRAGMATISM IN INQUIRY -- Chapter 6: ON INCONSISTENCY AND PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE -- Chapter 7: ON REALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSPARENT FACTS -- Chapter 8: ON FALLACIES OF AGGREGATION -- Chapter 9: LEIBNIZ AND THE CONDITIONS OF IDENTITY -- Chapter 10: WORLDLY WOES: THE TROUBLE WITH POSSIBLE WORLDS -- Chapter 11: TRIGRAPHS: A RESOURCE FOR ILLUSTRATION IN PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 12: FRAGMENTATION AND DISINTEGRATION IN PHILOSOPHY (Its Grounds and Its Implications) -- NAME INDEX -- Backmatter

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The core of pragmatism lies in the concept of functional efficacy-of utility in short. And epistemic pragmatism accordingly focuses on the utility of our devices and practices in relation to the aims and purposes of the cognitive enterprise-answering questions, resolving puzzlement, guiding action. The present book revolves around this theme. All papers in this book bear on epistemological topics which have preoccupied Nicholas Rescher for many years. Much as with the thematic structure of this book, this interest expanded from an initial concern with the exact sciences, to encompass the epistemology of the human sciences, and ultimately the epistemology of philosophy itself.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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