TY - BOOK AU - Rescher,Nicholas AU - Rescher,Nicholas TI - Collected Papers. T2 - Collected Papers SN - 9783110325409 AV - BD450 U1 - 128 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Philosophie KW - philosophische Anthropologie KW - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENT --; PREFACE --; Chapter 1. HOMO OPTANS: ON THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE BURDEN OF CHOICE --; Chapter 2. CAUSAL NECESSITATION AND FREE WILL --; Chapter 3. PREDICTIVE INCAPACITY AND RATIONAL DECISION --; Chapter 4. EXTRATERRESTRIAL SCIENCE --; Chapter 5. TRAPPED WITHIN HISTORY? - A PROCESS-PHILOSOPHICAL REFUTATION OF HISTORICIST RELATIVISM --; Chapter 6. RATIONALITY AND MORAL OBLIGATION --; Chapter 7. LUCK AND THE ENIGMAS OF FATE --; Chapter 8. THE SIGNIFICATIONS OF SILENCE --; Chapter 9. AMPHIBIOUS MAN --; Chapter 10 WHAT IF THINGS WERE DIFFERENT?-COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONALS AND ALTERNATIVE REALITIES --; Chapter 11. SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF FICTION --; Name Index; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110326383 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783110326383.jpg ER -