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- Analyzes an important system of pragmatic idealism and its approach to prediction in science
- Presents readers with a comprehensive philosophico-methodological analysis
- Highlights a prominent philosopher's contribution to a central topic for the philosophy and methodology of science
Part of the book series: European Studies in Philosophy of Science (ESPS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Coordinates, Semantic Features, and Logical Components of Scientific Prediction
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Predictive Knowledge and Predictive Processes in Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism
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From Reality to Values: Ontological Features, Axiological Elements, and Ethical Aspects of Scientific Prediction
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Back Matter
About this book
This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science.
The author offers a full characterization of Rescher’s system of philosophy. She presents readers with a comprehensive philosophico-methodological analysis of this important work. Her research takes into account different thematic realms: semantic, logical, epistemological, methodological, ontological, axiological, and ethical.
The book features three, thematic-parts: I) General Coordinates, Semantic Features and Logical Components of Scientific Prediction; II) Predictive Knowledge and Predictive Processes in Rescher’s Methodological Pragmatism; and III) From Reality to Values: Ontological Features, Axiological Elements, and Ethical Aspects of Scientific Prediction. This insightful analysis offers a critical reconstruction of Rescher’s philosophy. The system he created is often characterized as pragmatic idealism that is open to some realist elements. He is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism who has made a great deal of contributions to the study of this topic. This area is crucial for science and it has been little considered in the philosophy of science.Keywords
- Complexity and Scientific Prediction
- Limits to Predictability in Science
- Methodological Pragmatism
- Nicholas Rescher’s Philosophy
- Pragmatic Idealism
- Prescription in Applied Sciences
- methodology of science
- philosophico-methodological analysis
- pragmatic idealism realist
- Ethics Scientific Prediction
- Axiology Rescher
- Ontology Rescher
- Predictive knowledge Rescher
- Predictive process Rescher
- Rescher Methodological Pragmatism
- Rescher pragmatic idealism
- Rescher scientific prediction
- Rescher ethics
- Rescher epistemology
- Rescher antology
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Humanities, University of A Coruña, Ferrol, Spain
Amanda Guillán
About the author
Amanda Guillán is a member of the research group of “The Philosophy and Methodology of the Sciences of the Artificial” at the University of A Coruña. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pittsburgh for several months in the years 2014 and 2015, where she worked with Nicholas Rescher. Her main research interests lie in the philosophy and methodology of science; especially, in issues related to scientific prediction as well as prescription in applied sciences, mainly focused on the sciences of design.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
Book Subtitle: A Philosophical System and Its Approach to Prediction in Science
Authors: Amanda Guillán
Series Title: European Studies in Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63043-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63042-7Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87461-6Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63043-4Published: 30 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-4228
Series E-ISSN: 2365-4236
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 336
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Research Methodology, Pragmatism, Research Ethics