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Metaphysical perspectives
- Title
- Metaphysical perspectives / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- x, 258 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Metaphysics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- On the mission of philosophy -- Ultimate questions -- World views -- Terminological contextuality -- On contingency and necessity -- Randomness and reason -- Issues of self-reference and paradox -- Explanation and the principle of sufficient reason -- Intelligent design revisited in the light of evolutionary neo-Platonism -- What if things were different? -- On the improvability of the world -- Consciousness -- Control -- Free will in the light of process theory -- Personhood -- The metaphysics of moral obligation -- Empathy, shared experience, and other minds -- Philosophy as an inexact science -- Philosophy's involvement with transcendental issues -- Religious variation and the rationale of belief.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-10037
- ISBN
- 9780268102890
- 0268102899
- LCCN
- 2017030359
- OCLC
- 987795006
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas, author.
- Title
- Metaphysical perspectives / Nicholas Rescher.
- Publisher
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-10037