Axiogenesis
Subtitle: an essay in metaphysical optimalism
By: Nicholas Rescher
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780739149324
Subjects: Teleology; Metaphysics; Cosmology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ultimate questions; title: Ultimate answers; title: Optimalism and its turn to axiology; title: Intelligence and rationality as pivots for optimality: the idea of noophelia; title: Abandoning efficient causality for axiotropism; title: Meeting objections to optimalism; title: On the improvability of the world; title: Axiogenesis and intelligent design; title: Intelligence in an evolutionary perspective; title: Is noophelic axiogenesis unscientific?; title: Leibnizian physics as a case study; title: Gödel: noophelia in the twentieth century.