Predicting the future : an introduction to the theory of forecasting / Nicholas Rescher
- Bib ID:
- 1370577
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Rescher, Nicholas
- Description:
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998
- xiv 315 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0791435539 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- 0791435547 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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Nicholas Rescher develops a general theory of prediction that encompasses its fundamental principles, methodology, and practice and gives an overview of its promises and problems. Predicting the Future considers the anthropological and historical background of the predictive enterprise. It also examines the conceptual epistemic, and ontological principles that set the stage for predictive efforts. In short, Rescher explores the basic features of the predictive situation and considers their broader implications in science, in philosophy, and in the management of our daily affairs.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. The Philosophical Anthropology of Forecasting
- Ch. 2. Historical Stagesetting
- Ch. 3. Conceptual Preliminaries
- Ch. 4. Basic Epistemic Issues
- Ch. 5. Some Ontological Issues
- Ch. 6. Predictive Methods
- Ch. 7. The Evaluation of Predictions and Predictors
- Ch. 8. Obstacles to Predictive Foreknowledge
- Ch. 9. Prediction in the Sciences
- Ch. 10. Predictions about Natural Science: The Problem of Future Knowledge
- Ch. 11. Prediction in Human Affairs
- Ch. 12. Fundamental Limits of Predictors
- Ch. 13. Predictive Incapacity and Rational Decision Problems
- Ch. 14. The Shape of Things to Come: Facing the Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-310) and index.
- Subject:
- Forecasting
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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