Nature of Understanding: The Metaphysics and Method of Science - Couverture rigide

Rescher, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198250851 ISBN 13 : 9780198250852

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity. Rescher seeks to describe - in a way accessible to philosophers and nonphilosophers alike - the metaphysical situation that characterizes the process of inquiry in natural science. His principal aim is to see what light can be shed on reality by examining the modus operandi of natural science itself, focusing as much on its findings as on its conceptual and methodological presuppositions. This is the culmination of many years of penetrating work in this area of philosophy by one of its most eminent exponents. It is the definitive presentation of some of Rescher's key ideas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. Author of more than eighty works ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198250851
• ISBN 13: 9780198250852
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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