Reason and reality : realism and idealism in pragmatic perspective /
Rescher, Nicholas.
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Real things: reality and its contrasts -- On quantifying knowledge: and the gulf between linguistic truth and objective fact -- Immediate experience and ontology: a functional perspective of philosophical realism -- Presumptions and evidentially transcendental concepts: an idealistic perspective on philosophical realism -- Pragmatic realism: a practicalistic perspective on philosophical realism -- Realism and cognitive debility: an epistemic perspective on philosophical realism -- On the metaphysics and epistemology of laws of nature: the inherent risks of scientific empiricism)-- Pragmatism and practical rationality.
Reality.
Practical reason.
Pragmatism.