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In "Error", Nicholas Rescher presents a fresh analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Rescher maintains that error-avoidance and truth-achievement are distinct but equally important factors for rational inquiry, and that error is inherent in the human cognitive process (to err is human). He defines three main categories of error: cognitive (failure to realize truths); practical (failure related to the objective of an action); and axiological (failure in evaluation), and articulates the factors that contribute to each. His discussion also provides a historical perspective on the treatment of error in Greek philosophy, and by later thinkers such as Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, James, Royce, Moore, and Russell. "Error" is an important reexamination of the significance of error to the fields of philosophical anthropology, epistemology, ontology, and theology. As Rescher's study argues, truth and error are inexorably intertwined - one cannot exist without the other. "Error" is an unavoidable occurrence in the cognitive process - without missteps on the path to truth, truth itself cannot be attained. The risk of error is inherent in the quest for truth.

About the Author :
Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He has served as president of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He is currently president of the Metaphysical Society of America. In addition to visiting lectureships at Oxford, Konstanz, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Rescher has received seven honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of nearly one hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

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"A fascinating and challenging essay. Rescher has taken a much neglected and overlooked idea and placed it at the heart of cognition." -- Frederick Rosen, University College London "This book offers an interesting new interpretation and synthesis of familiar and disparate material about error. I know of no ocher work like it. It will interest not just specialists, but also general readers." -- Alan Musgrave, University of Otago A fascinating and challenging essay. Rescher has taken a much neglected and overlooked idea and placed it at the heart of cognition. Frederick Rosen, University College London" This book offers an interesting new interpretation and synthesis of familiar and disparate material about error. I know of no other work like it. It will interest not just specialists, but also general readers. Alan Musgrave, University of Otago" “ A fascinating and challenging essay. Rescher has taken a much neglected and overlooked idea and placed it at the heart of cognition.” — Frederick Rosen, University College London “ This book offers an interesting new interpretation and synthesis of familiar and disparate material about error.  I know of no other work like it.  It will interest not just specialists, but also general readers.” — Alan Musgrave, University of Otago "A fascinating and challenging essay. Rescher has taken a much neglected and overlooked idea and placed it at the heart of cognition." --Frederick Rosen, University College London "This book offers an interesting new interpretation and synthesis of familiar and disparate material about error. I know of no other work like it. It will interest not just specialists, but also general readers." --Alan Musgrave, University of Otago


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  • ISBN-13: 9780822943273
  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822943271
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong


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