The Nature and Understanding
The Metaphysics and Methods of Science
186 pages, parution le 01/05/2001
Résumé
Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking
from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of
traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its
comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity. Rescher
seeks to describe - in a way accessible to philosophers and
nonphilosophers alike - the metaphysical situation that
characterizes the process of inquiry in natural science.
His principal aim is to see what light can be shed on
reality by examining the modus operandi of natural science
itself, focusing as much on its findings as on its
conceptual and methodological presuppositions. This is the
culmination of many years of penetrating work in this area
of philosophy by one of its most eminent exponents. It is
the definitive presentation of some of Rescher's key ideas.
Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Metaphysical Principles in Erotetic Perspective 1
- 1 The Systematicity of Nature 7
- 2 The Complexity of Nature and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things 22
- 3 Order in Nature, Multifaceted Reality, and Contextualistic Realism 51
- 4 The Price of an Ultimate Theory 73
- 5 Ramifications of Realism 92
- 6 Intimations of Idealism 114
- 7 The Intelligibility of Nature 123
- 8 Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics 148
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Oxford University Press |
| Auteur(s) | Nicholas Rescher |
| Parution | 01/05/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 186 |
| Format | 14,5 x 22,2 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Poids | 354g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780198250852 |
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