Metaphysics
Subtitle: the key issues from a realistic perspective
By: by Nicholas Rescher.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Metaphysics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Existence; title: Categories and distinctions : on classification and taxonomy in metaphysical perspective; title: Complexity; title: Truth and reality : factual truth as grounded in reality; title: Process : on substance and process in metaphysics; title: Pragmatic idealism and metaphysical realism; title: Scientific realism : the limits of science as revelator of the real; title: Nonexistence and nonbeing : on possibilities and merely possible individuals; title: Knowledge and its limits : on quantifying knowledge : and essay in epistemetrics; title: Explicability and sufficient reason : on the price of an ultimate theory; title: Optimalism and the rationality of the real : on the prospect of axiological explanation.