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Forbidden Knowledge

And Other Essays on the Philosophy of Cognition

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  • © 1987

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  1. Nicholas Rescher

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Episteme (EPIS, volume 13)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Forbidden Knowledge

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 1-16

  3. Truth as Ideal Coherence

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 17-27

  4. Rationality and Consistency

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 28-43

  5. An End to Science?

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 44-57

  6. On the Probabilistic Bearing of Testimony

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 58-77

  7. The Limits of Probabilistic Epistemology

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 78-82

  8. The Threefold Way

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 83-92

  9. Number Idolatry and Fallacies of Quantification

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 93-99

  10. Life’s Seasons: The Conceptual Phenomenology of Age-Periodization

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 100-112

  11. Philosophical Taxonomy as a Philosophical Issue

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 113-134

  12. Is Philosophy a Guide to Life?

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 135-144

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 145-154
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About this book

This volume collects together eleven essays in epistemology, written during the past three years. They are mostly unpublished, just four of them having appeared previously (numbers two, three, four and eleven). Detailed acknowledgement of prior publication is made in the notes to the relevant chapters. I am indebted to the editors of the several publications involved for their kind permission to use this material. And I am particularly grateful to my friend, Professor Mario Bunge, for his interest in my work and for his willingness to include this sample of it in his 'Episteme' series. NICHOLAS RESCHER Pittsburgh, PA December, 1986 xi INTRODUCTION The philosophy of knowledge covers a vast and enormously diversified terrain. Within this broad area, the essays that comprise the present book deal specifically with the following issues: 1. The moral dimension of inquiry - in particular, scientific inquiry into the ways of the world (Chapter 1) 2. The epistemic status of such cognitive 'values' of inquiry as - coherence (Chapter 2) - consistency (Chapter 3) - completeness (Chapter 4) 3. The cognitive bearing of probabilistic considerations (Chapters 5 and 6) 4. The epistemic status of certain ideal desiderata of cognition, such as - totality (Chapter 7) - precision (Chapter 8) - exactness (Chapter 9) 5.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Nicholas Rescher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Forbidden Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: And Other Essays on the Philosophy of Cognition

  • Authors: Nicholas Rescher

  • Series Title: Episteme

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3771-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2410-6Published: 31 August 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8178-8Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3771-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 154

  • Topics: Epistemology

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