Dr. Patrick Grim, Dr. Nicholas Rescher

Theory of Categories

Key Instruments of Human Understanding

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a revisionist approach to categories, arguing that the standard philosophical approach is substantially correct in some respects, but markedly mistaken in others. The result is a distinctly pragmatic approach to categories and categorization, with implications regarding philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781839988134
• ISBN-10: 1839988134
• Artikelnr.: 65947408

Autorenporträt

Patrick Grim is known for wide-ranging research both within philosophy and beyond. This is his third collaborative volume with Nicholas Rescher. Nicholas Rescher, philosopher and polymath, is well known for a prodigious publishing career. A consistent focus in Rescher's work is the dialectical tension between our synoptic aspirations for useful knowledge and our human limitations as finite inquirers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Nature of Categories
Chapter 2: The History of Categorization
Chapter 3: Empirical Issues in Categorization
Chapter 4: Categories in Science
Chapter 5: Category Mistakes and Philosophical Paradoxes
Chapter 6: Ethical and Social Categories
References
 Index