Cognitive pragmatism the theory of knowledge in pragmatic perspective /

Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]
Physical Description: xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge of the truth in pragmatic perspective
  • Epistemic justification
  • Categories : a pragmatic approach
  • On learned ignorance and the limits of knowledge
  • The deficits of skepticism
  • Cognitive realism : a perspective on existence and our knowledge of it
  • Induction as enthymematic reasoning : a pragmatic perspective on inference to the best systematizaton
  • On circularity and regress in rational validation
  • Reification fallacies and inappropriate totalities
  • What if things were different?
  • Meta-knowledge and cognitive limits : rudiments of formalized epistemology.