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Nicholas Rescher
The book is a comprehensive treatise on luck, including a unified treatment of its anthropology, its history, its philosophy, its, mathematics, and its managements in practical affairs. It thus includes…
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Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology.
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Michele Marsonet
This work manages to present a complete and informative overview of Nicholas Rescher’s philosphy. The mixture of pragmatism and idealism, typical of Rescher’s stance, is carefully taken into account, along…
Wulf Kellerwessel
Rescher’s writings cover virtually every area of the subject and develop a philosophical system that has been characterized as unique in the present era for its comprehensiveness. This series presents…
When I entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, Nicholas Rescher had just joined the department of philosophy’ to begin, with Adolf Grunbaum, the…
Rescher Studies
Professor Nicholas Rescher
An highly original philosophical study of the relationship between what reality is and what we think it to be.
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A philosophical study that addresses the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of reality’s relations…
Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature’s complexity is literally inexhaustible
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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.
Recovers classical pragmatism from recent deconstructive interpretations.
The book examines some dozen fundamental ideas and principles at issue in ethical and moral deliberation. These studies exhibit the author’s characteristic concern for analytic clarity and normative sensitivity.
The book collects together various studies on issues of moral philosophy which the author has contributed to the professional literature of the subject over the years. Covering a wide range…
The book presents reasons why there is, or should be, no clash or contradiction among religion, philosophy, and science. All three of these characteristic human enterprises can and should complement…
Presents a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition of this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy.
Provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry.
In this collection of his recent and classic essays, philosopher Nicholas Rescher explores a variety of contemporary public policy issues ranging from the use of quantitative data in social policy-making…
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In this pioneering study of communicative conventions, distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher focuses on the principles at work in the communicative use of language.
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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…
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…
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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…
Cosmos and Logos - Studies in Greek Philosophy
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…
Presents author’s practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays.
Interpreting Philosphy
Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge
During 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. This book deals with his…
Epistemological Studies
Brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy’s all-time greats. In this book, the subject-matter topic being addressed differs significantly, but in…
Human finitude and its implications have long been one of the central themes of Western philosophy. This book includes essays that explores various facets of this not altogether pleasing fact…
Philosophizing is an activity-a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures. But philosophy itself-the product of philosophy-is an abstraction which, as such, exists in its own way. Like chemistry or poetry…
Offers a natural outgrowth of Rescher’s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), and Complexity (New…
Presents author’s practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider program of investigation of the scope and limits of rational inquiry in the pursuit of understanding.
Presents author’s practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations.
Philosophical Episodes
Among religiousists, many who form intelligent design have their doubts about evolution. This book argues that this view of the matter is not correct, and that in actuality one can…
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…
Philosophical Deliberations
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
