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Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency

Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency Paperback / softback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Nicholas Rescher

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Paperback / softback. New. The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. This title defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. It provides an instructive perspective on the many diverse issues that can arise from imperfect information and cognitive dissonance.
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  • Title Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency
  • Author Nicholas Rescher
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh, PA
  • Date 2009-08-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822960577
  • ISBN 9780822960577 / 0822960575
  • Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008037727
  • Dewey Decimal Code 121

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The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. In Aporetics, Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic theory from other authors to form this original and comprehensive survey. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history. Rescher's in-depth examination reveals how aporetic inconsistency can be managed through a plausibility analysis that breaks the chain of inconsistency at its weakest link by deploying right-of-way precedence based on considerations of cognitive centrality. Thus while involvement with cognitive conflicts and inconsistencies are pervasive in human thought, aporetic analysis can provide an effective means of damage control.

About the author

Nicholas Rescher was Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Rescher was the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge), Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, and A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes.