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基本説明
Over the past forty years Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from Hypothetical Reasoning (1964) to Epistemetrics (2006)—as well as various articles on particular issues and problems. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.
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Over the past forty years Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from Hypothetical Reasoning (1964) to Epistemetrics (2006) as well as various articles on particular issues and problems. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.
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Preface
Chapter 1: THE LIMITS OF COGNITIVE RELATIVISM
Chapter 2: CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES
Chapter 3: DEPICTION EPISTEMOLOGY
Chapter 4: SPECIFICITY PRIORITIZATION AND THE PRIMACY OF THE PARTICULAR
Chapter 5: ON THE WAYS AND VAGARIES OF FICTION
Chapter 6: PRESUMPTION AND THE JUDGMENT OF ELITES
Chapter 7: OVERSIMPLIFICATION
Chapter 8: ON LEARNED IGNORANCE
Chapter 9: COPING WITH COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS
Chapter 10: ON IGNORANCE AND LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
Index of Names
(Author portrait)
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.
