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1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations |
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PREFACE; Chapter One: EROTETIC NEOPLATONISM; Chapter Two: NEO-PLATONIC RUMINATIONS ON OPTIMALISM AND THEISM; Chapter Three: ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL ONTOLOGY; Chapter Four: AQUINAS AND WORLD IMPROVEMENT; Chapter Five: LEIBNIZ ON INFINITE ANALYTICITY; Chapter Six: LEIBNIZ AND ISSUES OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE; Chapter Seven: LEIBNIZ CROSSES THE ATLANTIC; Chapter Eight: KANT'S NEOPLATONISM (Kant and Plato on mathematical and Philosophical Method); Chapter Nine: ON PEIRCE AND UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS; Chapter Ten: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS AND THE SELF TRANSCENDENCE OF PHENOMENOLOGY |
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Chapter Eleven: THE WAR OF THE WORLDSChapter Twelve: WHAT EINSTEIN WANTED; Chapter Thirteen: GÖDEL'S LEIBNIZ CONSPIRACY; Chapter Fourteen: THE BERLIN GROUP AND THE RAND COOPERATION (A Narrative of Personal Interactions); Chapter Fifteen: ON INFERENCE FROM INCONSISTENT PREMISSES; Chapter Sixteen: PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORLD OF LEARNING (Aspects of a Two-Percent Solution); REFERENCES |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy
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philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
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Philosophy
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Philosophie
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Philosophie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110319934 |
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3110319934 |
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3868381236 |
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9783868381238 |
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3110319381 |
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9783110319385 |
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