Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-031920-0 (ISBN)
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.
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Chapter 1: On the Epistemology of Plato's Divided LineChapter 2: Aristotle's Golden Mean and the Epistemology of Ethical Understanding
Chapter 3: Ockham's Razor and Ontological Economy
Chapter 4: Pascal's Wager in Religion
Chapter 5: Leibniz on Coordinating Epistemology and Ontology
Chapter 6: Ethical Quantities
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.1.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | Zahlr. Abb. |
Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 435 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Schlagworte | Aristoteles • Epistemologie • leibniz • Ockam • PASCAL • Platon |
ISBN-10 | 3-11-031920-9 / 3110319209 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-031920-0 / 9783110319200 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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