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Axiogenesis : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / Nicholas Rescher.
- Title
- Axiogenesis : an essay in metaphysical optimalism / Nicholas Rescher.
- Author
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.
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- Description
- xi, 223 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ultimate questions -- Ultimate answers -- Optimalism and its turn to axiology -- Intelligence and rationality as pivots for optimality: the idea of noophelia -- Abandoning efficient causality for axiotropism -- Meeting objections to optimalism -- On the improvability of the world -- Axiogenesis and intelligent design -- Intelligence in an evolutionary perspective -- Is noophelic axiogenesis unscientific? -- Leibnizian physics as a case study -- Gödel: noophelia in the twentieth century.
- ISBN
- 9780739149324 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0739149326 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780739149348 (ebook)
- 0739149342 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2010015450
- OCLC
- 608297414
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library