{"product_id":"philosophical-reasoning-9780631230182","title":"Philosophical Reasoning","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends the thesis that systematization is the proper instrument of philosophical inquiry and that the effective pursuit of philosophy's mission calls for constructing a doctrinal system that answers our questions in a coherent and comprehensive manner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Reasoning\u003c\/i\u003e is a probing and commanding study of the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It is an excellent book on the difficult subject of how one should philosophize and what we can reasonably expect of philosophy, and a breath of fresh air falling between the extremes of philosophy as natural science and philosophy as the purely a priori. A very intriguing, articulate and convincing story of the nature of an art Rescher has practiced so well for so long for the benefit of so many. I strongly recommend it.\" \u003ci\u003eRobert Almeder, Georgia State University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Philosophy aims at rationally constructed comprehensiveness, now more collectively\/dialectically and less individually\/reflectively than in the past. So argues Nicolas Rescher in this systematic defense of system. If philosophical about their practice, philosophers who pick up this book won't easily put it down, even if in the end they disagree.\" \u003ci\u003eErnest Sosa, Brown University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What makes the book such a pleasure to read is that it combines the precision and thoroughness of a master philosopher with a writing style that makes for easy reading. This is a book which both novices and experts should read to help both understand the nature of their enterprise better.\" \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy in Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Task of Philosophy:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Erotetic Nature of Philosophy: Philosophy as a Cognitive Enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Need for Philosophy: Humans as Homo Quaerens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRationality is the Instrument of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy as Truth Estimation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Data of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphilosophical Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Philosophizing as an Erotetic Enterprise: The Dialectic of Question and Answer:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions and their Presuppositions: Issues Regarding the Legitimacy of Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestion Dynamics: Kant's Principle of Question Propagation and the Dialectical Exfoliation of Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy as a Venture in Erotetic Dialectic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophical Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: What's on the Agenda?:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnexamined Issues and Agenda Formation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Recent Scene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetaphilosophy a Part of Philosophy Itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Dimension: A Struggle for Ownership.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Systemic Dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Philosophical Discourse:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Narrative Dimension of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Method of Philosophy: Truth-Estimative Conjecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOngoing Explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Unity of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Data of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Interpreting Philosophical Texts:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSetting the Stage: Deconstructionism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExegetical Interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Philosophical Texts Need Interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Principle of Contextuality-Context Coherence as an Interpretative Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe First Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Second Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Third Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Rhetoric And Rational Argumentation:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRhetoric Versus Argumentation: The General Situation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Uneasy Union.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Special Case of Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy's Data: The Source of Plausibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Philosophical Aporetics:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pervasiveness of Apories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAporetic Antinomies Structure the Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: The Economic Dimension of Philosophical Inquiry:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlausibility as a Guide to Issues of Precedence and Priority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCost Effectiveness as a Salient Aspect of Rationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnacceptable Price Argumentation in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: The Impact of Distinctions:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of Distinctions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDialectic Development via Distinctions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopmental Dialectics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Inference to the Best Explanation and its Problems:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDifficulties with Inference to the Best Explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBest Systematization as a Viable Alternative.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: The Coherentist Criteriology of Truth as a Philosophical Method:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoherentism in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Context Helps via Local Appropriateness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophical Coherentism is Self Sustaining.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII: Why Philosophizing Must Be Systematic: The Holistic Nature of Philosophy:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExternalities and Negative Side Effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSystematic Interconnectedness as a Consequence of Aporetic Complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocal Minimalism versus Global Optimalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Not Simply \"Live With Inconsistency?\" The Imperative of Cognitive Rationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Methodological Rationale of Systematicity in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII: Systematization as an Instrument of Inquiry:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHierarchical Systematization: The Euclidean Model of Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSystematicity and the Impetus to Coherence: The Network Model.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Advantages of a Network Model.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pivotal Role of Data for a Coherentist Truth-Criteriology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoherentism's Exploitation of the Parameters of Systematicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSystematization as Truth Criterion: The Hegelian Inversion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIV: Developmental Dialectics and Complexity:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpencer's Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive Complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Methodological Status of Simplicity-Preference: Systematicity, Economy, and the Principle of Least Effort.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerennial Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRational Dialectic in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XV: Counterfactual Reasoning as a Philosophical Instrument:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Stagesetting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelief-Contravening Supposition: How Apories Arise in Hypothetical Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Centrality of Precedence (Right of Way).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic as Such Does Not Resolve Matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReductio Ad Absurdum Argumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvidential Contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Situation in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Overview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDispensing with \"Possible Worlds\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVI: Validating First Principles:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFirst Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Postscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVII: God's Place in Philosophy (Non in Philosophia Recurrere est ad Deum):.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwo Opposed Intuitions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheistic vs. Naturalistic Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Closure of the Secular Realm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInternal vs. External.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy and Theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplanatory Economy in Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVIII: Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: A Return to Systems?:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Heritage of the 19th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Revolt Against System (System-Dismissive Antisystems).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shipwreck of Inter-Bellum Negativism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Burned Bridges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Particularism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Vision of Wholeness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Order: A Revival of Systematic Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contemporary Situation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865455079767,"sku":"9780631230182","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631230182.jpg?v=1722274059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philosophical-reasoning-9780631230182","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}