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Author:   Nicholas Rescher
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781498540391

ISBN 10:   1498540392
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   08 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE I. METHODOLOGY 1. Introduction: The Concept Auditing Process II. SOME HISTORICAL APPLICATIONS 2. The Socratic Method as an Illustration 3. Neo-Platonic Wholes 4. Descartes and Generalization 5. Spinoza on Things and Ideas 6. Kantian Absolutism in Moral Theory 7. Mill on Desirability 8. Ordinary Language Philosophy on the Nature of Knowing 9. Russell-Gettier on the Analysis of Knowledge 10. Concept Dialectics in Historical Perspective 11. Metaphysical Illusions III. FURTHER ILLUSTRATIVE APPLICATIONS 12. Who Dun It? 13. Existence: To Be or Not to Be 14. Explanatory Regression 15. The Fallacy of Respect Neglect 16. Appearance and Reality 17. On the Truth about Reality 18. Sameness and Change 19. Origination Issues 20. Shaping Ideas 21. Construing Necessitation 22. Conceptual Horizons 23. Language Limits 24. On Certainty 25. Timeless Truth 26. Assessing Acceptability 27. Value Neutrality in Science 28. Personhood and Obligation 29. Control Issues 30. Fairness Problems 31. The Ethics of Delegation 32. Doing unto Others 33. Faux Quantities 34. Luck vs. Fortune 35. The Problem of Progress 36. Issues of Excellence 37. Problems of Perfection IV. CONCLUSION 38. Concluding Observations

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As one of the world's strongest philosophers, Nicholas Rescher has written books on topics going far beyond analysis of Ordinary Language. In Concept Audits, however, his theme is how disastrous it is to forget what words ordinarily mean, using a host of intriguing examples. -- John Leslie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

As one of the world's strongest philosophers, Nicholas Rescher has written books on topics going far beyond analysis of Ordinary Language. In Concept Audits, however, his theme is how disastrous it is to forget what words ordinarily mean, using a host of intriguing examples. -- John Leslie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Nicholas Rescher's admirable Concept Audits: A Philosophical Method systematizes a three-step natural language strategy for auditing the pretheoretical meanings of concept terms vital to philosophical expression. Rescher reveals the method successfully applied in many chapters in the history of philosophy, starting with Socrates' elenchus as a prototype concept audit. He then considers the method's value thematically in approaching a wide range of contemporary philosophical inquiries. Rescher's book is highly recommended to students and professionals. It will be appreciated as much for what it teaches about the underlying assumptions of some of the past most productive practice of philosophy, as for its clearly articulated and lavishly illustrated program for charting future methodologically self-conscious philosophical advances. -- Dale Jacquette, Universitat Bern

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Nicholas Rescher is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

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