Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, c1995.
Descriptionvii, 373 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Cosmic evolution in Anaximander -- Thought experimentation in presocratic philosophy -- Aristotle on ecthesis and apodeictic syllogisms -- Greek scepticism's debt to the Sophists -- Avicenna on the logic of questions -- Choice without preference: the problem of "Buridan's Ass" -- Pascal's wager -- The philosophers of gambling -- Leibniz finds a niche -- Leibniz and plurality of space-time frameworks -- Leibniz on creation and the evaluation of possible worlds -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the rabbis on a problem of distributive justice -- On the status of "things-in-themselves" in Kant -- Kant on noumenal causality -- Kant's cognitive anthropocentrism -- On the unity of Kant's categorical imperative -- Peirce on the self-correctiveness of science -- Peirce on abduction, plausibility, and the efficiency of scientific inquiry -- The rise and fall of analytic philosophy -- The present state of American philosophy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
