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Nicholas Rescher
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…
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Develops a general theory of prediction that encompasses its fundamental principles, methodology, and practice and gives an overview of its promises and problems.
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Recovers classical pragmatism from recent deconstructive interpretations.
Provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry.
A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge.
A study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry.
This volume charts the many twists and turns in the life and career of American philosopher, Nicholas Rescher. It takes the reader through Rescher’s life, tracing the evolution of his…
The studies collected here are united both by a common methodology of probative investigation and by their common purpose of providing instructive insight into a varied spectrum of important philosophical…
This work focuses on the phenomena and theory of rational inquiry, looking in particular at questions and their management, and setting the whole in an epistemological context, and with reference…
Ethical idealization pivots on idealities in the sphere of human action. Cognitive idealization, by contrast, pivots on idealization in the sphere of our knowledge. Accordingly, the task of the present…
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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…
This philosophically rich volume examines the limits of human knowledge and considers their implications.
Expounds a pragmatic metaphysics that offers an approach to this subject’s traditional objective of providing us with a secure cognitive grip on the nature of reality. The characteristic nature of…
This volume is a reassessment of free will and, as such, seeks to answer the question: Do humans ever act under the guidance of the will? To determine if humans…
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Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress, and propositional regress
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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 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…
This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called episteme, the present focus is on some less assured modes…
Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge
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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…
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…
Studies in the History of Logic
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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…
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…
This book examines how pragmatism’s central idea can be applied and implemented across the entire range of philosophical deliberations, ranging from theory of knowledge and the value theory to the…
Axiogenesis is an innovative philosophical work that dares to answer the question of the ultimate reason is behind the world’s existence and nature. Despite drawing on various strands of neo-Platonic…
Nicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that the historical perspective and forward-thinking normative, or systematic, approach are, together, an integral component of philosophy itself.
In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple
Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form
This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy.
This second edition of Free Will presents a complete treatment of the history of the debate over whether humans have free will
Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire…
Includes ten essays based on a series of investigations by the author, on epistemology.
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…
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.
