Essays in Philosophical Synthesis

by Nicholas Rescher

Overview

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 illustrate how philosophical issues do not remain in neatly separated compartments but reach out in interrelationship with one another. The second part analyzes the principle resources of philosophical methodology and shows in detail how and why they can only be implemented in a systemically interrelated manner. Overall, the book demonstrates and illustrates the systemic and holistic nature of philosophical inquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031342875
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has well over one hundred books to his credit, including Philsophical Fallacies (Palgrave, 2022),  Ethics Matters (Palgrave 2021), Philosophical Clarifications (Palgrave 2019), and Value Reasoning (Palgrave 2017).  

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.