Nature and Understanding (the Metaphysics and Method of Science)

by Nicholas Rescher

Book Overview

Exploring the central ideas of traditional metaphysics--such as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity--this book analyzes looking at such notions from a scientific point of view. It seeks to describe in a clear, accessible manner the metaphysical situation that characterizes the process of inquiry in natural science, aiming to shed light on reality by examining the modus operandi of natural science itself and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198250851
• ISBN13: 9780198250852
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"