Is Philosophy Dispensable?

01.03.2007

Englisch

9783938793459, 9783938793459

Editiones Scholasticae

Nein

Nicholas Rescher

117

Gebundene Ausgabe

And Other Philosophical Essays

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. 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 Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

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Preface Chapter 1: IS PHILOSOPHY DISPENSABLE? AN APORETIC ANALYSIS) Chapter 2: FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY Chapter 3: THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE AND ITS PROBLEMS Chapter 4: THE LIMITS OF NATURALISM (NATURE AND CULTURE IN PERSPECTIVAL DUALITY) Chapter 5: ON UNIVERSALS, NATURAL KINDS, AND LAWS OF NATURE Chapter 6: AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY Chapter 7: SELF-SUBSTANTIATING STATEMENTS Chapter 8: REGRET Chapter 9: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Chapter 10: RATIONALITY, SELF-INTEREST, ALTRUISM, AND OBLIGATION Chapter 11: WHAT IS PRAGMATISM? Chapter 12: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY Index of Names