On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition
On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 3110319772

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On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view.

On Certainty and Other Philosophical Essays on Cognition
On Certainty and Other Philosophical Essays on Cognition

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9783110319781

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On Certainty continues Rescher s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding. And pragmatism forms a subtextual Leitmotiv of these essays, seeing that the linking idea at work throughout is that knowledge is a tool for the management of our theoretical and practical affairs, and that what we ask of it is serviceability for the uses we have in view."

Epistemic Principles
Epistemic Principles

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 143313733X

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Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive analysis of epistemological fundamentals. The book is not a mere inventory of such rules and principles, but rather interweaves them into a continuous exposition of basic issues. Written at a user-friendly and accessible level, Epistemic Principles is an essential addition for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology.

Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays
Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 3110321343

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Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical issues, these deliberations are emblematic of Rescher’s characteristic way of illuminating timeless issues and historical perspectives in a reciprocal interrelationship. The chapter of the book are as follows: Being and Value: On the Prospect of Optimalism; On Evolution and Intelligent Design; Mind and Matter; Fallacies Regarding Free Will; Sophisticating Naïve Realism; Taxonomic Complexity and the Laws of Nature; Practical Vs. Theoretical Reason; Pragmatism as a Growth Industry; Cost Benefit Epistemology; Quantifying Quality; Explanatory Surdity; Can Philosophy be Objective?; On Ontology in Cognitive Perspective; Plenum Theory [Essay Written Jointly with Patrick Grim]; and Onometrics (On Referential Analysis in Philosophy)

Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games
Strategy Tools as Symbolic Objects in Managerial Language Games

Author: Dragan Djurić

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3658096659

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Dragan Djurić looks at strategy tools from a process-ontological worldview as proposed by the Process Organization Studies discourse. Building on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy he understands science and management as language games thereby developing a view of strategy tools as objects with both an ontological and a symbolic function. This perspective is contrasted with the traditional understanding of strategy tools as ‘technologies of rationality’ as well as with the practice-based view of strategy tools as ‘boundary objects’.

On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays
On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 3110320207

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This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in addressing philosophical issues via a mixture of historical contextualization, analytical scrutiny, and common-sensical concern. Their interest, such as it is, lies not just in what they do but in how they do it.

Artificial Cognition Systems
Artificial Cognition Systems

Author: Loula, Angelo

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2006-07-31

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1599041138

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"This book presents recent research efforts in Artificial Intelligence about building artificial systems capable of performing cognitive tasks. A fundamental issue addressed in this book is if these cognitive processes can have any meaningfulness to the artificial system being built"--Provided by publisher.

Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy
Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy

Author: Rebecca Kukla

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-07-03

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13: 1139455168

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This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core elements of Kant's epistemology, such as his notions of discursive understanding, experience, and objective judgment. They also demonstrate a rich grasp of Kant's critical epistemology that enables a deeper understanding of his aesthetics. Collectively, the essays reveal that Kant's critical project, and the dialectics of aesthetics and cognition within it, is still relevant to contemporary debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and the nature of experience and objectivity. The book also yields important lessons about the ineliminable, yet problematic place of imagination, sensibility and aesthetic experience in perception and cognition.