Reality and Its Appearance

Nicholas Rescher (Author)
Reality and Its Appearance cover

Reality and Its Appearance

Nicholas Rescher (Author)

Description

In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of reality's relations to appearances? Rescher argues that the distinction between reality and its appearance is not a substantive distinction between two types of being, but rather relates to different ways of understanding one selfsame mode of being.
The book proposes that while realism is a sensible and tenable position, nevertheless there is something to be said for idealism as well. In the cognitive as in the moral life, perfection is beyond our human grasp and we have no choice but to rest content with the best that we can manage to achieve in practice. This perspective shifts the approach from a cognitive absolutism to a pragmatism that is prepared to come to terms with the limitations inherent in our situations. On this basis Rescher defends a substantive realism that itself rests on a justificatory rationale of a decidedly pragmatic orientation.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Reality vs. Appearance

2. How Truth Thought 'Agrees' with Reality

3. Cognitive Access to Reality

4. Problems of Fallibilism

5. Scientific Realism

6. The Rationale of Realism

References

Index

Product details

Published 11 Feb 2010
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 140
ISBN 9781441164858
Imprint Continuum
Series Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Author

Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philos…

Reviews

  • Reality and its Appearance is an excellent book... Highly readable.

    Jamie Morgan, Journal of Critical Realism

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