理解の本質：形而上学と科学の方法 Nature and Understanding : The Metaphysics and Method of Science

Rescher, Nicholas

Oxford University Press（2003/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199261826
• DDC分類 501

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001.

Full Description

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

Introduction: Metaphysical Principles in Erotetic Perspective ; 1. The Systematicity of Nature ; 2. The Complexity of Nature and the Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things ; 3. Order in Nature, Multifaceted Reality, and Contextualistic Realism ; 4. The Price of an Ultimate Theory ; 5. Ramifications of Realism ; 6. Intimations of Idealism ; 7. The Intelligibility of Nature ; 8. Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics ; Bibliography, Index