Philosophical Clarifications Studies Illustrating the Methodology of Philosophical Elucidation /

• Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History-Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of History.

This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. Consisting of three sections, it first deals with the nature of philosophizing itself and seeks to illus...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: On Philosophical Deliberation
• Chapter 2: On Philosophical Historiography
• Chapter 3: Pragmatic Perspectives
• Chapter 4: Imprecise Boundaries
• Chapter 5: Conjecture
• Chapter 6: The Limits of Language
• Chapter 7: Quantitative Epistemology
• Chapter 8: Issues of Explanation
• Chapter 9: Does Inference to the Best Explanation Work?
• Chapter 10: Contingency
• Chapter 11: Luck
• Chapter 12: The Protagoras Perplex
• Chapter 13: Acknowledging Scientific Contributions
• Chapter 14: Personal vs. Social Utilitarianism
• Chapter 15: On Excuses for Moral Obligation
• Chapter 16: On the Philosophy of Religion.