Philosophical Episodes

Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher

Philosophical Episodes

De Gruyter | 2011

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110319934

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Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particularized ideas and issues: studies that deal not with entire continents but with mere reefs and estuaries. The present essays are of this limited nature. Their aim is less to give a view of the overall lay of the land than to give a tranistic view of the diversity of the landscape. The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical diversity the essays exhibit a uniformity of method in a common attempt to view historically significant philosophical issues in the light of modern perspectives opened up thorough conceptual clarification.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
CONTENTS Free access PDF PDF	v
PREFACE Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	vii
Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	9
Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	15
Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	27
Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	33
Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
Chapter Eight: KANT’S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	77
Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	89
Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	113
Chapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	129
Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL’S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	155
Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	181
Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	189
Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	193
REFERENCES Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
Backmatter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	211

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