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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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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.
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Rescher Studies
Professor Nicholas Rescher
An highly original philosophical study of the relationship between what reality is and what we think it to be.
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…
Studies in 20th Century Philosophy
Studies in Pragmatism
Studies in Idealism
Studies in Philosophical Inquiry
No short book on the explanation of existence can afford the hubris of claiming to accomplish this task. And certainly no such claim can be or is being made here…
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…
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…
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…
Studies in Value Theory
Studies in Metaphilosophy
Studies in the Philosophy of Science A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
Autobiography
Comprises ten essays that mediate between Scholastic concerns and contemporary philosophical issues, and address key issues - from historical as well as substantive standpoint. The essays are written in the…
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Explores the evolutionary aspects of epistemology by focusing on seven major aspects, since philosophers tend to view evolution from a cultural as well as biological point of view.
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.
This book explores a disputational approach to inquiry. Such a focus on disputation is useful because it exhibits epistemological process at work in a setting of socially conditioned interactions. This…
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
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…
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 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…
Interpreting Philosphy
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…
Studies in Social Philosophy
Studies in Philosophical Anthropology
Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism
Ideas in Process
Epistemic Merit and other Essays on Human Knowledge
There are several questions which convey objections to Leibnizian ideas. In actual fact, however, Leibniz anticipated them all. This book aims to lend plausibility to how he set about it.
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to the big questions regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. The…
Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature’s complexity is literally inexhaustible
Philosophical Deliberations
