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Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency

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

by Rescher, Nicholas

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Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 176 pages. 8.40x5.50x0.60 inches.
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  • Title Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency
  • Author Rescher, Nicholas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, PIttsburgh, PA
  • Date 2009
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0822960575
  • 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

From the publisher

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.