Research Catalog

Title

Ideas in process : a study on the development of philosophical concepts / Nicholas Rescher.

Author

Rescher, Nicholas

Publication

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009.

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Description

148 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of generic processes that have ample room for connectivity and recurrence, permitting the very self-same conception to be shared by philosophers of different settings."--Publisher's website

Series Statement

Process thought ; volume 22

Uniform Title

Process thought ; v. 22.

Alternative Title

Study on the development of philosophical concepts

Subject

Process philosophy

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ideas in process : the flaws of historicism -- Four models of conceptual change in philosophy -- Free will as an illustration of the identity model -- Intersubstantival relations as an illustration of the common core model -- Analyticity as an illustration of the common core model -- The coherence theory of truth as an illustration of the thematic linkage model -- Dialectic itself as an illustration of the dialectical model -- Philosophical history in process-philosophical perspective.

ISBN

9783868380385 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

319496705

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Harvard Library