Essays in Philosophical Synthesis

This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems and topics bound together by links of reciprocal interconnection. The book consists of two parts: The first part consists of a series of case studies which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Essays in Philosophy
  • 1. Philosophical Guidance
  • 2. Control Problems
  • 3. Error
  • 4. Compound Valuation in Multi-Aspect Amalgamation
  • 5. The Fairness Perplex
  • 6. The Rationale of Moral Obligation
  • 7. Social Gravitation
  • Part II: Essays on Philosophy
  • 8. Normative Rationality
  • 9. Speculation and “What-If” Thinking
  • 10. Precision as a Key Factor in Inquiry
  • 11. Rationalistic Philosophizing
  • 12. The Transcendental Impetus
  • 13. Ultimate Explanation: The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Its Ramifications
  • 14. Contextual Metaphilosophy
  • 15. Apories and the Rational Unavoidability of Philosophizing