Rescher develops a theory that accounts for philosophical disagreement and shows how conflicts root in divergent ‘cognitive values’-values regarding matters such as importance, centrality, and priority. He argues that given…

A study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends this the following thesis: that systematization is the proper instrument of philosophical inquiry, and that the effective pursuit…

On the 300th anniversary of the consolidation of the metaphysical system of Leibniz in the Discours de metaphysique and the ensuing correspondence with Antoine Arnauld, it seemed fitting to reexamine…

Philosophy and mathematics grew up together in the days of Pythagoras and Plato. Indeed, they have been in constant companionship and interaction ever since.

This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of fallacious…

Within scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics. Science, however, does not have a monopoly on knowledge. While scientometrics is a centerpiece of epistemetrics, it is not the whole…

Seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to major logical results.

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