Nicholas Rescher: Metaphysical Perspectives

Cover: 9780268102890 | Metaphysical Perspectives | Nicholas Rescher | Buch | Englisch | 2017

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Beschreibung

In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the architecture of nature at large, (2) ourselves as nature's denizens and our potential for learning about it, and (3) the transcendent domain of possibility and value. Rescher engages issues across a wide range of metaphysical themes, from different worldviews and ultimate questions to contingency and necessity, intelligent design and world-improvability, personhood and consciousness, empathy and other minds, moral obligation, and philosophical methodology. Over the course of this book, Rescher discusses, with his characteristic fusion of idealism and pragmatism, an integrated overview of the key philosophical problems grounded in an idealistically value-oriented approach. His discussion seeks to shed new light on philosophically central issues from a unified point of view.

Über den Autor

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of 175 books, including Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction: On the Mission of Philosophy

1. Ultimate Questions

2. World Views

3. Terminological Contextuality

4. On Contingency and Necessity

5. Randomness and Reason

6. Issues of Self-Reference and Paradox

7. Explanation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

8. Intelligent Design Revisited in the Light of Evolutionary Neo-Platonism

9. What If Things Were Different?

10. On the Improvability of the World

11. Consciousness

12. Control

13. Free Will in the Light of Process Theory

14. Personhood

15. The Metaphysics of Moral Obligation

16. Empathy, Shared Experience, and Other Minds

17. Philosophy as an Inexact Science

18. Philosophy's Involvement with Transcendental Issues

19. Religious Variation and the Rationale of Belief

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Names

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780268102890
ISBN-10:	0268102899
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Rescher, Nicholas
Hersteller:	University of Notre Dame Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Nicholas Rescher
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.12.2017
Gewicht:	0,546 kg

Artikel-ID: 109465578