About the book

A set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in contemporary idealism and are important for the pragmatic idealism that Nicholas Rescher long was developing.
 

Preface           

Chapter 1:
WHAT SORT OF IDEALISM IS VIABLE TODAY?

Chapter 2:
REALITY IN THE LIGHT OF REALISM AND IDEALISM

Chapter 3:
THE ARGUMENTS FROM ERROR AND IGNORANCE: AN EPISTEMIC APPROACH TO FACTUAL REALISM

Chapter 4:
PRAGMATIC IDEALISM AND META-PHYSICAL REALISM

Chapter 5:
POSSIBILITY CONCEPTUALISM AS AN APPROACH TO MODAL ONTOLOGY

Chapter 6:
OPTIMALISM AND THE RATIONALITY OF THE REAL (ON THE PROSPECTS OF AXIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION)

Chapter 7:
THE REVOLT AGAINST ABSOLUTES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 8:
THE ABSOLUTE: A CONCISE HISTORY

Chapter 9:
DIALECTIC:  A BRIEF HISTORY

Chapter 10:
MCTAGGART’S LOGICAL DETERMINISM

Chapter 11:
BLANSHARD AND THE COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH

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Collected Papers III
Studies in Idealism

 

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