Perspectival pluralism has as little sympathy for "...a kind of Will Rogers
pluralism that never met a position it didn't like" (13-27) as it has patience
with the myopic self-importance of doctrinalism. Precisely for this reason
it is difficult not to like Rescher's pluralism. With philosophy determined
as the answer to an existential need for rational systematization of perspec-
tival experience, the position promises to span positions that are commonly
divided. There's new hope for those tire…
Read morePerspectival pluralism has as little sympathy for "...a kind of Will Rogers
pluralism that never met a position it didn't like" (13-27) as it has patience
with the myopic self-importance of doctrinalism. Precisely for this reason
it is difficult not to like Rescher's pluralism. With philosophy determined
as the answer to an existential need for rational systematization of perspec-
tival experience, the position promises to span positions that are commonly
divided. There's new hope for those tired of eccentric methodologies in post-
modern dialectics, and those tired of the methodical eccentricity in analyti-
cal thought experiments-perspectival pluralism holds out the prospect of
a metaphilosophical stance which undercuts cynical detachment yet moves
beyond necessitarian universalist rationality...
