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
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame Press
2017
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| Dans: | Année: 2017 |
| Recensions: | Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher, University of Notre Dame Press, 2017 (ISBN 978-0-268-10289-0), x + 260 pp, hb 45 (2019) (Thompson, Ben)
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Metaphysics
B Electronic books |
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| Édition parallèle: | Print version: Rescher, Nicholas: Metaphysical Perspectives. - Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press,c2017. - 9780268102890 |
| Résumé: | 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 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: On the Mission of Philosophy -- One Ultimate Questions -- Two World Views -- Three Terminological Contextuality -- Four On Contingency and Necessity -- Five Randomness and Reason -- Six Issues of Self-Reference and Paradox -- Seven Explanation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason -- Eight Intelligent Design Revisited in the Light of Evolutionary Neoplatonism -- Nine What If Things Were Different? -- Ten On the Improvability of the World -- Eleven Consciousness -- Twelve Control -- Thirteen Free Will in the Light of Process Theory -- Fourteen Personhood -- Fifteen The Metaphysics of Moral Obligation -- Sixteen Empathy, Shared Experience, and Other Minds -- Seventeen Philosophy as an Inexact Science -- Eighteen Philosophy's Involvement with Transcendental Issues -- Nineteen Religious Variation and the Rationale of Belief -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names |
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| ISBN: | 0268102910 |