Is philosophy dispensable? : and other philosophical essays
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Is philosophy dispensable? : and other philosophical essays
Ontos, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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'During 2005-2006, I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays of this kind have usually issued in journal publications, this has not been so in the present case so that the studies offered here encompass substantially new material. Notwithstanding their thematic variation, they manifest a uniformity of treatment and method in a way that is characteristic of my philosophical modus operandi and inherent in its endeavours to treat classical issues from novel points of view' - Nicholas Rescher.
Table of Contents
- Is Philosophy Dispensable?: An Aporetic Analysis
- First Principles and Their Place in Philosophy
- The Hume-Edwards Principle and its Problems
- The Limits Of Naturalism: Nature and Culture in Perspectival Duality
- On Universals, Natural Kinds, and Laws of Nature
- Aquinas and the Principle of Epistemic Disparity
- Self-Substantiating Statements
- Regret
- The Problem of Evil
- Rationality, Self-Interest, Altruism and Obligation
- What is Pragmatism?
- The Transformation of American Philosophy.
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