On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition.
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 li...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2011.
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.