Reason and reality : realism and idealism in pragmatic perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2005]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Real things-- reality and its contrasts
  • On quantifying knowledge-- and the gulf between linguistic truth and objective fact
  • Immediate experience and ontology-- a functional perspective of philosophical realism
  • Presumptions and evidentially transcendental concepts-- an idealistic perspective on philosophical realism
  • Pragmatic realism-- a practicalistic perspective on philosophical realism
  • Realism and cognitive debility-- an epistemic perspective on philosophical realism
  • On the metaphysics and epistemology of laws of nature (on the inherent risks of scientific empiricism)
  • Pragmatism and practical rationality.