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Metaphilosophy is philosophy's poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy doing philosophy to take time to stand back and consider reflectively how the project itself actually works. And they lead tend to produce texts without too much consideration of how this looks from the standpoint of the consumer. All this, it seems to be, affords good reason for attending to philosophical hermeneutics, reflecting on the issue of how philosophical texts are to be understood and interpreted.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: THE PROJECT: On Philosophical Discourse and Its Interpretation
Chapter 2: THE PROCESS: Hermeneutical Methodology Examined
Chapter 3: THE CONTRAST: A Critique of Deconstructionism
Chapter 4: THE AGENDA: What Issues are to Figure in Philosophical Deliberations?
Chapter 5: THE PERSONALIA: Referential Analysis in Philosophy
Chapter 6: THE TYPOLOGY: Elements of Philosophical Taxonomy
Chapter 7: THE Argumentation What Substantiates the Fundamentals?
Chapter 8: THE TERMINOLOGY The Problem of Defining One s Terms
Chapter 9: THE MESSAGE On the Formative Role of Apories in Philosophical Deliberation
Chapter 10: THE INTERCONNECTIONS The Systemic Interlinkage of Philosophical Issues
Chapter 11: THE LAWS The Rational Requisites of Interpretive Procedure
Chapter 12: THE PROSPECT Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: A Return to Systems
Index of Names
About the author
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.
