A System of Pragmatic Idealism, vol. 1, Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective.

The Review of Metaphysics | June 1, 1993| | Copyright

The author is a writer of startling productivity: his publisher reminds us that he has written fifty-nine books and two hundred thirteen journal articles. It is not surprising that, as Rescher observes, reviewers of his individual works have generally failed to understand that a systematic whole is at issue. In the projected trilogy of which the present work is the first volume, he intends to present his philosophical ideas "in a sufficiently comprehensive and coordinated form that their systematic interrelatedness becomes clearly manifest" (p. xi). This volume is devoted ...

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