Epistemology : (Record no. 89993)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9780791486375 |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BD161 -- .R477 2003eb |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rescher, Nicholas. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Epistemology : |
| Remainder of title | An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Albany : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | State University of New York Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2003. |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (425 pages) |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | SUNY Series in Philosophy Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro -- Epistemology -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- Part I: Knowledge and Its Problems -- 1. Modes of Knowledge -- IS KNOWLEDGE TRUE JUSTIFIED BELIEF? -- MODES OF (PROPOSITIONAL) KNOWLEDGE -- OTHER BASIC PRINCIPLES -- 2. Fallibilism and Truth Estimation -- PROBLEMS OF METAKNOWLEDGE -- THE PREFACE PARADOX -- THE DIALLELUS -- AN APORY AND ITS RECONCILIATION: K-DESTABILIZATION -- COSTS AND BENEFITS -- MORE ON FALLIBILISM -- THE COMPARATIVE FRAGILITY OF SCIENCE: SCIENTIFIC CLAIMS AS MERE ESTIMATES -- FALLIBILISM AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN OUR (PUTATIVE) TRUTH AND THE REAL TRUTH -- 3. Skepticism and Its Deficits -- THE SKEPTICS "NO CERTAINTY" ARGUMENT -- THE ROLE OF CERTAINTY -- THE CERTAINTY OF LOGIC VERSUS THE CERTAINLY OF LIFE -- PRAGMATIC INCONSISTENCY -- SKEPTICISM AND RISK -- RATIONALITY AND COGNITIVE RISK -- THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION: COSTS AND BENEFITS -- THE DEFICIENCY OF SKEPTICISM -- 4. Epistemic Justification in a Functionalistic and Naturalistic Perspective -- EXPERIENCE AND FACT -- PROBLEMS OF COMMON-CAUSE EPISTEMOLOGY -- MODES OF JUSTIFICATION -- THE EVOLUTIONARY ASPECT OF SENSORY EPISTEMOLOGY -- RATIONAL VERSUS NATURAL SELECTION -- AGAINST "PURE" INTELLECTUALISM -- THE PROBLEM OF ERROR -- CONCLUSION -- 5. Plausibility and Presumption -- THE NEED FOR PRESUMPTIONS -- THE ROLE OF PRESUMPTION -- PLAUSIBILITY AND PRESUMPTION -- PRESUMPTION AND PROBABILITY -- PRESUMPTION AND SKEPTICISM -- HOW PRESUMPTION WORKS: WHAT JUSTIFIES PRESUMPTIONS -- 6. Trust and Cooperation in Pragmatic Perspective -- THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF SHARING AND COOPERATING IN INFORMATION ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT -- THE ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATION -- BUILDING UP TRUST: AN ECONOMIC APPROACH -- TRUST AND PRESUMPTION -- A COMMUNITY OF INQUIRERS -- Part II: Rational Inquiry and the Quest for Truth -- 7. Foundationalism versus Coherentism. |
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| Formatted contents note | HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMIZATION: THE EUCLIDEAN MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE -- CYCLIC SYSTEMATIZATION: THE NETWORK- AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE EUCLIDEAN MODEL -- THE CONTRAST BETWEEN FOUNDATIONALISM AND COHERENTISM -- PROBLEMS OF FOUNDATIONALISM -- 8. The Pursuit of Truth: Coherentist Criteriology -- THE COHERENTIST APPROACH TO INQUIRY -- THE CENTRAL ROLE OF DATA FOR A COHERENTIST TRUTH-CRITERIOLOGY -- ON VALIDATING THE COHERENCE APPROACH -- IDEAL COHERENCE -- TRUTH AS AN IDEALIZATION -- 9. Cognitive Relativism and Contextualism -- COGNITIVE REALISM -- WHAT'SWRONG WITH RELATIVISM -- THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CONTEXTUALISM OF REASON -- A FOOTHOLD OF ONE'S OWN: THE PRIMACY OF OUR OWN POSITION -- THE ARBITRAMENT OF EXPERIENCE -- AGAINST RELATIVISM -- CONTEXTUALISTIC PLURALISM IS COMPATIBLE WITH COMMITMENT ON PURSUING "THE TRUTH" -- THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF RELATIVISM -- 10. The Pragmatic Rationale of Cognitive Objectivity -- OBJECTIVITY AND THE CIRCUMSTANTIAL UNIVERSALITY OF REASON -- THE BASIS OF OBJECTIVITY -- THE PROBLEM OF VALIDATING OBJECTIVITY -- WHAT IS RIGHT WITH OBJECTIVISM -- ABANDONING OBJECTIVITY IS PRAGMATICALLY SELF-DEFEATING -- 11. Rationality -- STAGE-SETTING FOR THE PROBLEM -- OPTIMUM-INSTABILITY -- IDEAL VERSUS PRACTICAL RATIONALITY: THE PREDICAMENT OF REASON -- THE PROBLEM OF VALIDATING RATIONALITY -- THE PRAGMATIC TURN: EVEN COGNITIVE RATIONALITY HAS A PRAGMATIC RATIONALE -- ALTERNATIVE MODES OF RATIONALITY? -- THE SELF-RELIANCE OF RATIONALITY IS NOT VICIOUSLY CIRCULAR -- Part III: Cognitive Progress -- 12. Scientific Progress -- THE EXPLORATION MODEL OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY -- THE DEMAND FOR DATA ENHANCEMENT -- TECHNOLOGICAL ESCALATION: AN ARMS RACE AGAINST NATURE -- THEORIZING AS INDUCTIVE PROJECTION -- LATER NEED NOT BE LESSER -- COGNITIVE COPERNICANISM -- THE PROBLEM OF PROGRESS -- 13. The Law of Logarithmic Returns and the Complexification of Natural Science. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST EFFORT AND THE METHODOLOGICAL STATUS OF SIMPLICITY-PREFERENCE IN SCIENCE -- COMPLEXIFICATION -- THE EXPANSION OF SCIENCE -- THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS -- THE RATIONALE AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE LAW OF LOGARITHMIC RETURNS -- THE GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE -- THE DECELERATION OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS -- PREDICTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF THE INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE RELATIONSHIP -- THE CENTRALITY OF QUALITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS -- 14. The Imperfectability of Knowledge (Knowledge as Boundless) -- CONDITIONS OF PERFECTED SCIENCE -- THEORETICAL ADEQUACY: ISSUES OF EROTETIC COMPLETENESS -- PRAGMATIC COMPLETENESS -- PREDICTIVE COMPLETENESS -- TEMPORAL FINALITY -- "PERFECTED SCIENCE" AS AN IDEALIZATION THAT AFFORDS A USEFUL CONTRAST CONCEPTION -- THE DISPENSABILITY OF PERFECTION -- Part IV: Cognitive Limits and the Quest for Truth -- 15. The Rational Intelligibility of Nature -- EXPLAINING THE POSSIBILITY OF NATURAL SCIENCE -- "OUR" SIDE -- NATURE'S SIDE -- SYNTHESIS -- IMPLICATIONS -- 16. Human Science as Characteristically Human -- THE POTENTIAL DIVERSITY OF "SCIENCE" -- THE ONE WORLD, ONE SCIENCE ARGUMENT -- A QUANTITATIVE PERSPECTIVE -- COMPARABILITY AND JUDGMENTS OF RELATIVE ADVANCEMENT OR BACKWARDNESS -- BASIC PRINCIPLES -- 17. On Ignorance, Insolubilia, and the Limits of Knowledge -- CONCRETE VERSUS GENERIC KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE -- EROTETIC INCAPACITY -- DIVINE VERSUS MUNDANE KNOWLEDGE -- ISSUES OF TEMPORALIZED KNOWLEDGE -- KANT'S PRINCIPLE OF QUESTION EXFOLIATION -- COGNITIVE INCAPACITY -- INSOLUBILIA THEN AND NOW -- COGNITIVE LIMITS -- IDENTIFYING INSOLUBILIA -- RELATING KNOWLEDGE TO IGNORANCE -- POSTSCRIPT: A COGNITIVELY INDETERMINATE UNIVERSE -- 18. Cognitive Realism -- EXISTENCE -- HOMO MENSURA? -- REALISM AND INCAPACITY -- THE COGNITIVE OPACITY OF REAL THINGS -- THE COGNITIVE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF THINGS -- THE CORRIGIBILITY OF CONCEPTIONS. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | COGNITIVE PROGRESS -- COGNITIVE DYNAMICS -- CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF REALISM AS A POSTULATE -- HIDDEN DEPTHS: THE IMPETUS TO REALISM -- THE PRAGMATIC FOUNDATION OF REALISM AS A BASIS FOR COMMUNICATION AND DISCOURSE -- THE IDEALISTIC ASPECT OF METAPHYSICAL REALISM -- SCIENCE AND REALITY -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- CHAPTER 18 -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Rescher, Nicholas |
| Title | Epistemology |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Albany : State University of New York Press,c2003 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780791458112 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform title | SUNY Series in Philosophy Series |
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