1st Edition
Infinite Regress The Theory and History of Varieties of Change
Edited By Nicholas Rescher
Copyright 2010
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
189 Pages
by
Routledge
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Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: Where do we go from here? It is primarily with intelligent beings that we ask: How did we get to where we now find ourselves? Regression and infinite regression in particular is thus a concept that has... Read more
Preface Introduction: The Conception of Infinite Regress Part 1: Systematic Considerations 1. Regress Theory 2. Some Modes of Vicious Regress 3. Some Modes of Innocuous Regress 4. Circularity and Endless Regress 5. Dispensing with The Regress of Reasons 6. Propositional Regresses Part 2: Historical Considerations 7. The Ancients 8. The Medievals 9. The Early Moderns 10. Kant 11. From Hegel to Dewey 12. Bertrand Russell 13. Gilbert Ryle on Mind and the Free Will Perplex Bibliography Index
Biography
Nicholas Rescher
