Ethical idealism : an inquiry into the nature and function of ideals / by Rescher, Nicholas

Subjects: “…Ideals (Philosophy)…”
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Studies in idealism / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""PREFACE""; ""WHAT SORT OF IDEALISM IS VIABLETODAY?""; ""REALITY IN THE LIGHT OF REALISMAND IDEALISM""; ""THE ARGUMENTS FROM ERROR AND IGNORANCE: AN EPISTEMIC APPROACH TO FACTUAL REALISM""; ""PRAGMATIC IDEALISM AND METAPHYSICAL REALISM""; ""POSSIBILITY CONCEPTUALISM AS ANAPPROACH TO MODAL ONTOLOGY""; ""OPTIMALISM AND THE RATIONALITYOF THE REAL: ON THE PROSPECTS OFAXIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION""; ""THE REVOLT AGAINST ABSOLUTES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY""; ""THE ABSOLUTE: A CONCISE HISTORY""; ""DIALECTIC: A BRIEF HISTORY""; ""McTAGGARTâ€?…”
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A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III : Metaphilosophical Inquiries. by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…PART III: AGAINST PHILOSOPHICAL RELATIVISM Ten ; Dispensing with Consensus: Pluralism in Philosophy; Eleven ; Philosophy in Process; Twelve; On Classifying Metaphysical Positions: A Case Study in Pluralism; Thirteen; Reactions to Pluralism; Fourteen ; Rejecting Philosophical Relativism; Appendix; Pragmatic Idealism: A Schematic Sketch of the Overall Position; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.…”
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A system of pragmatic idealism / by Rescher, Nicholas

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Metaphilosophical inquiries / by Rescher, Nicholas

“…System of pragmatic idealism ;…”
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Realism and pragmatic epistemology / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Personal experience and realistic ontology -- Realism in pragmatic perspective -- Presuppositional realism and justifactory idealism -- Rational economy and the evolutionary impetus -- Specificity prioritization and the primacy of the particular -- Dismissing extremely remote possibilities -- Default reasoning -- Cognitive myopia and the world's lawfulness.…”
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Philosophical inquiries : an introduction to problems of philosophy / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…-- Pluralism and concretization quandaries -- The power of ideals -- Science and religion -- On the improvability of the world -- Why philosophy?…”
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Studies in pragmatism / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Preface; PRAGMATISM AND PRACTICALRATIONALITY; KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTHIN PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE; PRAGMATISM IN THE TWENTIETHCENTURY; PRAGMATISM AT THE CROSSROADS; IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCEAND ONTOLOGY:A PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM; PRAGMATIC REALISM:A PRACTICALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ONPHILOSOPHICAL REALISM; PRAGMATIC IDEALISM ANDMETAPHYSICAL REALISM; COUNTERFACTUALS IN PRAGMATICPERSPECTIVE; Name Index.…”
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Philosophical Deliberations. by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…ON THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY; Chapter Eleven: PRAGMATISM IDEALISM; Chapter Twelve: PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS OF PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS.…”
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Studies in 20th century philosophy / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…; TWENTIETH CENTURY ANGLOAMERICANNEO-IDEALISM; THE BERLIN SCHOOL OF LOGICALEMPIRICISM AND ITS LEGACY; H2O: HEMPEL-HELMER-OPPENHEIM:AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OFSCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE 20THCENTURY; LOGICIANS AT RAND; PLURALITY QUANTIFICATION; Name Index…”
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Cognitive complications : epistemology in pragmatic perspective / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Factual knowledge in the perspective of pragmatic idealism -- Cognitive defaults -- Inescapable error -- Modes of cognitive appraisal -- Simplicity as a pragmatic conception -- Oversimplification -- The role of technology in natural science -- Creative probability -- Unanswerable questions and unknowable facts -- Indefinite knowledge, unidentifiable items, and paradoxes of vagueness -- Importance -- Cognitive complementarity -- Excellence examined -- Group knowledge -- Physical science from an alien point of view -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Unpopular essays on technological progress / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Technological progress and human happiness -- The environmental crisis and the quality of life -- The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy -- Ethical issues regarding the delivery of health care -- Ideals, justice, and crime -- Economics versus moral philosophy : the Pareto principle as a case study -- Why save endangered species? …”
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Autobiography / by Rescher, Nicholas

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Reality and its appearance / by Rescher, Nicholas

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Reason and rationality in natural science : a group of essays /

Table of Contents: “…Rosenberg -- Varieties of understanding / Robert Brandom -- Theory families, plausibility, and the defense of modest realism / Rom Harré -- Scientific rationality and its reconstruction / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Conservation and the data base / William Lycan -- Darwin's achievement / Philip Kitcher -- A purley scientific temper' : Victorian expressions of the ideal of an autonomous science / Robert E. Butts.…”

Epistemic pragmatism and other studies in the theory of knowledge / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Chapter 1 EPISTEMIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 2 LINGUISTIC PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 3 ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS -- Chapter 4 ON COGNITIVE ECONOMICS -- Chapter 5 THE UNEASY UNION OF IDEALITY ANDPRAGMATISM IN INQUIRY -- Chapter 6 ON INCONSISTENCY AND PROVISIONALACCEPTANCE -- Chapter 7 ON REALISM AND THE PROBLEM OFTRANSPARENT FACTS -- Chapter 8 ON FALLACIES OF AGGREGATION -- Chapter 9 LEIBNIZ AND THE CONDITIONS OF IDENTITY -- CHAPTER 10 WORLDLY WOES:THE TROUBLE WITH POSSIBLE WORLDS -- Chapter 11 TRIGRAPHS: A RESOURCE FOR ILLUSTRATIONIN PHILOSOPHY…”
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Philosophical standardism : an empiricist approach to philosophical methodology / by Rescher, Nicholas

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