Overview
- Offers an instructive approach to the theory of knowledge
- Provides an explanation of cognitive limits
- Presents novel ideas regarding unknowability
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 48)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Issues of Specification and Conception
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Issues of Truth and Knowledge
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Issues of Paradox and Cognitive Incompleteness
Keywords
- Boundaries to Knowledge
- Inference and Guesswork
- Philosophical Understanding
- Default Inference
- Rescher and Default Reasoning
- Variant Approach to Vagueness
- Rescher and Conceivability
- Alethic Topology
- Logic of Knowledge Distribution
- Leibniz and "the liar"
- Godel and Anticipation
- Reification Fallacies and Inappropriate Totalities
- Intuition and Mathematical Idealism
- Limits from Axiomatization and Explanation
- La Casas and Sepulveda
- Famous Philosophical Confrontations
About this book
The first chapters address basic facts regarding the conceptualization of knowledge. This is followed by a study on how to deal with problems relating to the affirmation and considerations of truth. The final chapters scrutinize the limits of demonstration and the inherent impossibility of realizing an ideal systematization of our knowledge of totalities. The book affords novel perspectives regarding the thought of a widely appreciated philosopher. It is an original work aimed for readers interested in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of cognition.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge at the Boundaries
Authors: Nicholas Rescher
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48431-6
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 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48430-9Published: 26 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48433-0Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48431-6Published: 25 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 257
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Analytic Philosophy, Logic