Unknowability: An Inquiry into the Limits of Knowledge - Rilegato

Rescher, Nicholas

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ISBN 10: 0739136151 ISBN 13: 9780739136157

Casa editrice: Lexington Books, 2009

Riassunto

The realities of mankind's cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world's ways is bound to be imperfect. None the less, the theory of unknowability—agnoseology as some have called it—is a rather underdeveloped branch of philosophy. In this philosophically rich and groundbreaking work, Nicholas Rescher aims to remedy this. As the heart of the discussion is an examination of what Rescher identifies as the four prime reasons for the impracticability of cognitive access to certain facts about the world: developmental inpredictability, verificational surdity, ontological detail, and predicative vagrancy. Rescher provides a detailed and illuminating account of the role of each of these factors in limiting human knowledge, giving us an overall picture of the practical and theoretical limits to our capacity to know our world.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Nicholas Rescher is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Lexington Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0739136151
• ISBN 13: 9780739136157
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 113
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile