The Limits of Science, Realism, and Idealism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. The Limits of Science, Realism, and Idealism 1
5. On Possibilities and Thought Experiments 29
6. Coherentism and Coherence Truth in the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher 59
7. Philosophical Anthropology 89
8. Pluralism and Consensus 105
9. Meditations, Wagers, and Existential Issues: Nicholas Rescher on Religion and Philosophy 121
10. Rescher’s Metaphysics 141
11. The Limits of Science Reconsidered 151
12. Conceivability 169
13. Weird Worlds 197
14. Nicholas Rescher on Greek Philosophy and the Syllogism 211
15. Rescher’s Evolutionary Epistemology 241
16. Common Sense 253
17. Systematic Philosophy and Theoretical Framework on Nicholas Rescher’s A System of Pragmatic Idealism 261
18. On Rescher’s View of Idealism (and Pragmatism) 287
19. Rescher on Arabic Logic 309
20. Philosophy in the Future 325
21. Rescher on Explanation and Prediction 339
22. Nicholas Rescher on Scientific Progress: Science in the Face of Limited Cognitive and Technological Resources 363
23. Rescher on Dialog Systems, Argumentation, and Burden of Proof 401
24. Rescher on Process Thought 429
25. How is Scientific Knowledge Economically Possible?: Nicholas Rescher’s Contributions to an Economic Understanding of Science 445
26. Possibility, Plenitude, and the Optimal World: Rescher on Leibniz’s Cosmology 477
27. Rescher on Aporetics and Consistency 493
28. Responses to the Contributed Essays 513
29. Work by and about Nicholas Rescher 553
30. List of Contributors 573
31. Backmatter 575