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Author Rescher, Nicholas.

Title Ideas in process : a study on the development of philosophical concepts / Nicholas Rescher
Published Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (148 pages)
Series Process thought ; v. 22
Process thought ; v. 22.
Contents PREFACE; Chapter One -- IDEAS IN PROCESS; Chapter Two -- FOUR MODELS OF CONCEPTUALCHANGE IN PHILOSOPHY; Chapter Three -- FREE WILL AS AN ILLUSTRATION OFTHE IDENTITY MODEL; Chapter Four -- INTERSUBSTANTIVAL RELATIONS ASAN ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMONCORE MODEL; Chapter Five -- ANALYTICITY AS AN ILLUSTRATIONOF THE COMMON CORE MODEL; Chapter Six -- THE COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTHAS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THETHEMATIC LINKAGE MODEL; Chapter Seven -- DIALECTIC ITSELF AS ANILLUSTRATION OF THEDIALECTICAL MODEL; Chapter Eight -- PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY INPROCESS-PHILOSOPHICALPERSPECTIVE; Name Index
Summary The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas. The doctrine of historicism in the history of ideas has it that each era and perhaps even each thinker employs philosophical ideas in such a user-idiosyncratic way that there is no continuity and indeed no connectivity of public access across the divides of space, time, and culture. In opposition to such a view, the present processist deliberations see the development of ideas as a matter of gene
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Process philosophy.
process philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Process philosophy
Form Electronic book
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