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Nicholas Rescher was preoccupied in the mid 1970’s since working on his book Scientific Progress with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from various points of view. Overall this project has also resulted in such later books as Limits of Science, Epistemic Logic, and Epistemetrics. Gradually this preoccupation with various different aspects of the problem has led him to contemplate a systemic integration of his ideas on this important theme. The aim of the present book is to weave these diverse threads into a unified treatment of this overall terrain. Accordingly, the present discussion unites in systemic coordination various perspectives and aspects of our cognitive finitude. The result is a cohesive and perspicuous account of significant aspects of this critical feature of our cognitive condition.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: FINITUDE AND LIMITATIONS (ON UNREALIZABLE ASPIRATIONS)
Chapter 2: ON COGNITIVE FINITUDE (IGNORANCE AND ERROR)
Chapter 3: SCEPTICISM AND FINITUDE
Chapter 4: LIMITS OF COGNITION (A LEIBNIZIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUANTITATIVE DISCREPANCY BETWEEN LINGUISTIC TRUTH AND OBJECTIVE FACT)
Chapter 5: COGNITIVE PROGRESS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
Chapter 6: AGAINST SCIENTIFIC INSOLUBILIA
Chapter 7: THE PROBLEM OF UNKNOWABLE FACTS
Chapter 8: EPISTEMETRIC INSOLUBILIA AND COGNITIVE FINITUDE
Chapter 9: CAN COMPUTERS OVERCOME OUR COGNITIVE FINITUDE?
Conclusion
eBook for Adobe Reader, ISBN 3-938793-00-7
133 pages, 17,50 Euro. Single licence for Windows, Mac, Unix and Mobile! Special conditions for libraries.
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