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While philosophers from Plato to Kant and beyond have discussed the mission and methodology of philosophy, this area of deliberation has only recently been acknowledged as a distinctive branch of philosophy as such, duly entitled metaphilosophy. There are, as yet, very few books on the subject so that the present volume joins a rather select group. Professor Rescher has published in the field for some thirty years and this book gathers together a representative sampling of his contributions. Taken together these pieces convey an instructive overview of the field, as well as vividly conveying their author’s take on the key issues that constitute its problem domain.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: ARE SYNOPTIC QUESTIONS ILLEGITIMATE?
Chapter 2: ON FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR LEGITIMATION
Chapter 3: HOLISTIC EXPLANATION AND THE IDEA OF A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY
Chapter 4: ON PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMATIZATION (PLAUSIBILITY AND THE HEGELIAN VISION)
Chapter 5: THE PRICE OF AN ULTIMATE THEORY
Chapter 6: PHILOSOPHICAL METHODOLOGY
Chapter 7: THE FALLACY OF RESPECT NEGLECT
Chapter 8: PHILOSOPHICAL DISAGREEMENT AN ESSAY TOWARDS ORIENTATIONAL PLURALISM IN METAPHILOSOPHY
Chapter 9: IS PHILOSOPHY A GUIDE TO LIFE? (ON THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF “APPLIED PHILOSOPHY”)
Chapter 10: PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLES
Chapter 11: THE INTERPRETATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS
Chapter 12: REFERENTIAL ANALYSIS IN PHILOSOPHY
Index of Names
eBook for Adobe Reader, ISBN 3-938793-04-x
221 pages , 17,50 Euro. Single licence for Windows, Mac, Unix and Mobile! Special conditions for libraries.
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