Understanding reality : metaphysics in epistemological perspective /: metaphysics in epistemological perspective. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Rescher.
• Authors: Rescher, Nicholas
• Contents: Introduction ; 1. Reality ; 2. Consciousness ; 3. Control Issues ; 4. Reality’s Intelligible Order ; 5. The Role of Technology in Natural Science ; 6. Oversimplification ; 7. Overcomplication ; 8. Quantitative Epistemology ; 9. Information Iniquities ; 10. Managing Uncertainty ; 11. The Paradox of Inquiry ; 12. Prediction, Fashion, and Futurity in the Philosophy of Science ; 13. Probative Homogeneity in Rational Substantiation ; 14. Teleology and Chance ; 15. Explaining Existence ; References
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 110; Metaphysics; Reality; Knowledge, Theory of
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498585118
• Related ISBNs: 9781498585101
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