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Nicholas Rescher
Concept Audits explores the obligation of philosophers to honor the existing meanings of terms and concepts such as knowledge, truth, justice, and fairness. This book explains how philosophers’ treatments of…
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Nicholas Rescher presents the first translation of medieval Arabic philosopher al-Farabi’s Short Commentary on Prior Analytics in English, and supplements this with an informative introduction and numerous explanatory footnotes.
Originally published in 1966. This book presents a tolerably accurate and precise account of the logically relevant facets of a command, to study the nature of inference in reasonings involving…
As a study in the methodology of metaphysics, the book seeks to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. It unfolds…
The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author’s work over decades. They join in exploring the…
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In this unique work Nicholas Rescher tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence.
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Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.
Cognitive Harmony is part of an exciting new trilogy exploring the theory of knowledge by one of the world’s foremost philosophers. Together the books provide an integrated approach to the…
Offers Nicholas Rescher’s perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy. He argues that the need to inquire is an evolutionary tool for adapting to a hostile environment and…
Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature’s complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature…
Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress, and propositional regress. Also discussed is the history of regression…
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory
Pragmatism’s founder, C
For teaching Leibniz - a philosopher as difficult as he is important - this is as good a work as we are ever likely to get. It gives good guidance…
This work argues the case for restoring objectivity to a place of prominence in philosphic and social discourse. By tracing the source of objectivity back to the core of rationality…
This work aims to show how the idea of distributive equity forms the core of the concept of fairness in distributive justice. It concludes that fairness is a fundamentally ethical…
Nicholas Rescher undertakes a systematic survey of the role and utility of thought experiments in philosophy. After surveying the historical issues, Rescher examines the principles involved, and explains the conditions…
In this highly accesible work, Rescher offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to terms with life in a chaotic world.
Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge.
Rescher presents a broad-ranging study that examines the manifestations, consequences, and occasional benefits of ignorance in areas of philosophy, scientific endeavor, and ordinary life.
Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis…
The first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, from antiquity to the current era.
Nicholas Rescher outlines a general theory for the cost-effective use of intellectual resources, and discusses the requirements of cooperation, communication, cognitive importance, cognitive economy, and then applies his model to…
This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis…
Philosophical anthropology is the study of the conditions of human existence and the issues that confront everyday life. This text surveys, from a contemplative, philosophical point of view, a wide…
The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.
This book offers a clear, accessible introduction to the theory of reporting, with a special emphasis on national security, particularly military and diplomatic reporting, drawing on examples from historical accounts…
Presents a study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing a view of the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry.
Contains nine original essays that explore the themes of philosophical progress, ultimate explanation, the metaphysics of free will, and the relation of sciences and religion.
This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal…
Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it. In this book, Rescher inquires into…
The book presents a detailed examination of many key aspects of philosophizing, ranging from the mission of philosophy, its method, its dialectic, and its epistemology. It conveys to the reader…
Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors in our understanding of the real, and emphasizes process over product. In this work Nicholas Rescher provides an accessible…
The four main essays in this volume investigate new sectors of the theory of decision, preference, act-characteristics, and action analysis. These are complemented by appendices on a study of the…
This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new insights into key philosophical concerns ranging from methodological issues to substantive doctrines. The second section is devoted…
Cosmos and Logos - Studies in Greek Philosophy
Interpreting Philosphy
Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge
Im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahrzehnte sind verschiedene Aufsatze Reschers in Deutsch erschienen, die in diesem Band zusammengefasst werden. Es handelt sich hauptsachlich um drei Themengebiete: Erkenntnistheorie, philosophische Anthropologie und Metaphilosophie…
A book is written in what has been called the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation between science and religion. It features a key thesis is that these two can…
Is Philosophy Dispensable? And other philosophical essays
Issues in the Philosophy of Religion
Few ideas have played a prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. This…
Being and Value