Research Catalog

Title

Epistemic principles : a primer for the theory of knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.

Author

Rescher, Nicholas

Publication

New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2017]

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Details

Description

xiii, 172 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American university studies, series v, philosophy ; vol. 228

Uniform Title

American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; v. 228.

Subject

Knowledge, Theory of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Principles -- Questions -- Ideas -- Principles of truth and acceptance -- Presumption as a pathway to plausibility -- Conjecture and the move from mere plausibility and presumption to acceptability -- Plausibility conflicts and paradox -- From conjecture to belief and from belief to knowledge -- The epistemic gap and grades of acceptance -- Cognitive thresholds -- Intuitive knowledge -- Experience and induction -- Distributive vs. collective explanation -- Cognitive importance -- Problems of prediction -- Error and cognitive risk -- Problems of skepticism -- Trust -- Common sense -- How science works -- Scientific realism and its problems -- The anthomorphic contextuality of science -- Ignorance and limits of knowledge -- On systemic "best fit" reasoning -- Inference from the best systematization -- The cyclic unity of reason -- Fact, fiction and functional surrogacy -- A pragmatic coda.

ISBN

• 9781433135477
• 1433135477
• 9781433135989 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781433137334 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781433137341 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016034685

OCLC

961034908

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library