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Essays in Philosophical Analysis
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This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratic...
This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the twentieth century; the second part features essays on epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, the theory of historiography, and the logic of temporal concepts. Despite the range of topics, all essays are closely integrated at the methodological level.
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- University of Pittsburgh Press 1969
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969
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- 1 online resource (440 p.)
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- 9780822975762, 9780822931737
- Front Matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- HISTORICAL ESSAYS -- I Cosmic Evolution in Anaximander -- II Aristotle's Theory of Modal Syllogisms and Its Interpretation -- III Three Post-Aristotelian Concepts of Syllogistic Logic -- IV The Concept of Nonexistent Possibles -- V Choice Without Preference: A Study of the History and of the Logic of the Problem of "Buridan's Ass" -- VI Logical Difficulties in Leibniz' Metaphysics -- VII An Argument of Hume's -- VIII The Revolt Against Process in Recent Philosophy -- SYSTEMATIC ESSAYS -- IX The Problem of Uniqueness in History -- X Evidence in History and in the Law -- XI The Dimensions of Metaphysics -- XII A New Look at the Problem of Innate Ideas -- XIII Truth and Necessity in Temporal Perspective -- XIV Pragmatic Justification: A Cautionary Tale -- XV The Illegitimacy of Cartesian Doubt -- XVI Translation as a Tool of Philosophical Analysis -- XVII The Concept of Control -- XVIII A Philosopher Looks at Welfare Economics(pp. 355-374) -- XIX A Problem in the Theory of Estimation -- XX Discrete State Systems, Markov Chains, and Problems in the Theory of Scientific Explanation and Prediction -- Index of Names -- Subject Index