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Minding Matter Nicholas Rescher

Minding Matter By Nicholas Rescher

Minding Matter by Nicholas Rescher


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The studies collected here are united both by a common methodology of probative investigation and by their common purpose of providing instructive insight into a varied spectrum of important philosophical issues.

Minding Matter Summary

Minding Matter: And Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry by Nicholas Rescher

Minding Matter presents a group of philosophical essays thematically divided. The first chapters deal with issues of philosophizing and metaphilosophy. The remainder of the book covers issues of values and human affairs. The studies collected within are united by a common methodology of probative investigation and their common purpose to provide instructive insight into a varied spectrum of important philosophical issues. Each essay is connected to the next by representing common modus operandi, deploying the classificatory techniques that characterize the analytical mode of philosophizing in an endeavor to elucidate some larger-scale issues of traditional concerns in philosophy.

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This new collection of reflections on contemporary philosophy and culture is remarkable for both its synoptic power and its breadth of vision. Rescher writes with clarity, historical wisdom, and thought-provoking insight. A delight to read. -- James W. Felt, Santa Clara University
Minding Matter shows Rescher at the top of his form, working out the consequences of his conceptual pragmatism for the central problems of philosophy. Of special interest in this volume are his metaphilosophical reflections on the history of twentieth century philosophy, idealism, analytic philosophy, and American thought. Rescher is masterful in using the techniques of analytic philosophy-explicit and rigorous argument, scrupulous attention to details and distinctions-in examining the scope andlimits of analytic philosophy itself... -- Hugh Wilder, The College of Charleston
Minding Matter shows Rescher at the top of his form, working out the consequences of his conceptual pragmatism for the central problems of philosophy. Of special interest in this volume are his metaphilosophical reflections on the history of twentieth century philosophy, idealism, analytic philosophy, and American thought. Rescher is masterful in using the techniques of analytic philosophy-explicit and rigorous argument, scrupulous attention to details and distinctions-in examining the scope and limits of analytic philosophy itself. -- Hugh Wilder, The College of Charleston

About Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. A former president of the American Philosophical Association, he is an honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has held visiting lectureship at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg. As the author of more than eighty works ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Scholarship in 1984.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 On Philosophizing and Metaphilosophy Chapter 3 The Rise and Fall of Analytic Philosophy Chapter 4 End-of-the-Century Philosophizing: A Return to Systems? Chapter 5 Who Has Won the Big Battles of Twentieth-Century Philosophy? Chapter 6 Perspectives on Nature in American Thought Part 7 On Values and Human Affairs Chapter 8 Nomic Hierarchies and Problems of Relativism Chapter 9 Is Reasoning about Values Viciously Circular? Chapter 10 Homo Optans: On the Human Condition and the Burden of Choice Chapter 11 Risking Democracy: Some Reflections on Contemporary Problems of Political Decision Part 12 Bibliography Part 13 Index

Additional information

NLS9780742512696
9780742512696
074251269X
Minding Matter: And Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry by Nicholas Rescher
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2001-11-09
160
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