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The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Accordingly, th...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
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[2013] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998). Accordingly, the role of principles in human affairs is crucial and ubiquitous. Principology, the theory of principles underdeveloped through it may be is accordingly bound to find a significant place in the sphere of philosophical inquiry regarding matters of thought and action. |
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1 online resource(220pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110321746 |
| Index Number: | BD238 |
| CLC: | B0 |
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Rules -- Chapter 2: Rule Conflicts, Higher Order Rules, and Rules of Reason -- Chapter 3: Functional Hierarchies -- Chapter 4: Judgment and the Limited Reach of Rules -- Chapter 5: Rules, the Social Order, and Morality -- Chapter 6: Principles: Their Nature and Function -- Chapter 7: Functional Hierarchies Again -- Chapter 8: Principles of Rational Inquiry -- Chapter 9: The Principle of Sufficient Reason -- Chapter 10: Philosophical Principles -- Chapter 11: Principles in Natural Philosophy -- Chapter 12: Leibnizian Physics as a Case Study -- Chapter 13: Moral Principles -- Coda -- References -- Name Index -- Backmatter. |