Studies in Cognitive Finitude 5. Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers

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133

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310 g

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Ontos verlag

Kurzbeschreibung

Nicholas Rescher was preoccupied in the mid 1970?s since working on his book Scientific Progress with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from various points of view. Overall this project has also resulted in such later books as Limits of Science, Epistemic Logic, and Epistemetrics. Gradually this preoccupation with various different aspects of the problem has led him to contemplate a systemic integration of his ideas on this important theme.  The aim of the present book is to weave these diverse threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain.  Accordingly, the present discussion unites in systemic coordination various perspectives and aspects of our cognitive finitude.  The result is a cohesive and perspicuous account of significant aspects of this critical feature of our cognitive condition.

Beschreibung

For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these various threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. It argues in detail that while scepticism is about the prospect of factual knowledge about the world is emphatically unwarranted, nevertheless the project of amplifying this knowledge does encounter some specifiable and insuperable limits.

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