Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Co-Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and has formerly served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department. He is the author of 175 books, including Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997).
151 Ebooks by Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher: Metaphysical Perspectives
In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher ad …
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€35.99
Nicholas Rescher: Unknowability
The realities of mankind’s cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world’s ways is bound to be imperfect. None the less, the theory of unknowability-agnoseology as some have called it- …
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€138.68
Nicholas Rescher: Axiogenesis
Nicholas Rescher’s book Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism is a detailed exposition of axiogenerts: the philosophical theory seeking to explain the world’s facts on the basis of evaluat …
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€168.24
Nicholas Rescher: Metaphilosophy
The definitive mission of metaphilosophy is to facilitate an understanding of how philosophy worksthe aim of the enterprise, the instrumental and procedural resources for its work, and the prospect o …
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€175.90
Nicholas Rescher: A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II
This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life’s work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, wh …
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€49.99
Nicholas Rescher: A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III
This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life’s work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, which a …
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€52.99
Nicholas Rescher: Free Will
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 have free will, Rescher first examines …
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€54.99
Nicholas Rescher: Infinite Regress
Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: W …
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€89.99
Nicholas Rescher: Pragmatism
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. P …
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€89.99
Nicholas Rescher: Vagaries of Value
Pragmatism’s founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining …
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€77.99
Nicholas Rescher: Free Will
This second edition of Free Will presents a complete treatment of the history of the debate over whether humans have free will. It analyzes the conditions under which actions must be characterized as …
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€38.99
Nicholas Rescher: Pragmatic Vision
Since C. S. Pierce advocated a pragmatic approach to truth and knowledge, it has been one of the characteristic themes of American philosophy. This book examines how pragmatisms central ideas can be …
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€168.86
George Yancy: Philosophical I
Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophical …
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€56.61
Nicholas Rescher: Cognitive Complications
The prime intent of Cognitive Complications is one of innovation. Rescher addresses issues that are under-examined in the present state of discussion, their inherent interest notwithstanding. The lin …
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€167.03
Nicholas Rescher: Concept Audits
Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth, justice, fairness, beauty, or the like and purport …
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€155.37
Nicholas Rescher: Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective
This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistm, the present focus is on some less assured m …
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€180.18
Nicholas Rescher: Understanding Reality
The book sees to show that the present discussion so unfolds as to show that ultimately Reality’s inherent impetus to lawful order serves also to account for its existence. The ultimate explanation o …
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€155.08
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Clarifications
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. Con …
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€69.54
Nicholas Rescher: Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry
This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and expl …
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€53.49
Nicholas Rescher: Value Reasoning
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 and explana …
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€64.19
Nicholas Rescher: Why is there anything at all?
Mit einem Initiativartikel von Nicholas Rescher, einem der profiliertesten Metaphysiker der Gegenwart, wird die dritte Jahrbuch-Kontroverse eröffnet, diesmal zu einem klassisch metaphysischen Hauptth …
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€29.00
John Erpenbeck: Wertungen, Werte – Das Buch der Grundlagen für Bildung und Organisationsentwicklung
Digitalisierung, demografischer Wandel oder Migration verändern unsere Denk- und Handlungsweisen fundamental. Die Welt wird immer unberechenbarer und die Unsicherheit sowie die Komplexität nehm …
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€24.99
Nicholas Rescher: Metaphysical Perspectives
In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher ad …
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€46.31
Nicholas Rescher: G.W. Leibniz”s Monadology
G.W. Leibniz”s Monadology , one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy and one of its most puzzling productions. Because the es …
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€47.42
Nicholas Rescher: G.W. Leibniz”s Monadology
G.W. Leibniz”s Monadology , one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy and one of its most puzzling productions. Because the es …
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€47.58
Nicholas Rescher: Vagaries of Value
Pragmatism”s founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining …
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€56.50
Nicholas Rescher: Vagaries of Value
Pragmatism”s founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining …
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€56.70
Nicholas Rescher: Free Will
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 have free will, Rescher first examines …
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€56.84
Nicholas Rescher: Free Will
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 have free will, Rescher first examines …
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€55.90
Nicholas Rescher: What If?
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. Nichola …
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€68.95
Nicholas Rescher: What If?
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. Nichola …
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€69.59
Nicholas Rescher: Fairness
In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple. The principle is often elusive and subject to confusion, even in institutions of law, usage, and custom. In Fairness, Nicholas Resch …
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€56.19
Nicholas Rescher: Fairness
In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple. The principle is often elusive and subject to confusion, even in institutions of law, usage, and custom. In Fairness, Nicholas Resch …
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€56.70
Nicholas Rescher: Inquiry Dynamics
Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge. Its range of concern includes not only knowledge proper but also rational belief, probability, plausibility, evidentiation, and not least, erotetics …
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€56.70
Nicholas Rescher: Inquiry Dynamics
Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge. Its range of concern includes not only knowledge proper but also rational belief, probability, plausibility, evidentiation, and not least, erotetics …
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€56.59
Nicholas Rescher: Pragmatism
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. P …
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€56.49
Nicholas Rescher: Pragmatism
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice. P …
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€56.60
Nicholas Rescher: Infinite Regress
Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: W …
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€56.49
Nicholas Rescher: Infinite Regress
Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: W …
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€56.50
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Progress
The nine original essays collected in this volume explore the themes of philosophical progress, ultimate explanation, the metaphysics of free will, and the relation of sciences and religion. These es …
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€155.54
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Progress
The nine original essays collected in this volume explore the themes of philosophical progress, ultimate explanation, the metaphysics of free will, and the relation of sciences and religion. These es …
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€119.95
Nicholas Rescher: Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge
The core of pragmatism lies in the concept of functional efficacy-of utility in short. And epistemic pragmatism accordingly focuses on the utility of our devices and practices in relation to the aims …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher: Epistemological Studies
The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues. They form part of a wider program …
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€99.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing
The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy’s all-time greats. The subject-matter topic being addressed differs significantly …
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€124.95
Nicholas Rescher: Finitude
Human finitude and its implications have long been one of the central themes of Western philosophy. The essays gathered together in this volume explore various facets of this not altogether pleasing …
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€99.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Textuality
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 chemistr …
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€84.95
Nicholas Rescher & Patrick Grim: Beyond Sets
This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on “Plenum Theory” published in Nous. The work grew out of the author’s conviction that stand …
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Nicholas Rescher: On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition
On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding 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 o …
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€99.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Explorations
This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical dive …
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€119.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Episodes
Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly particular …
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€144.95
Nicholas Rescher: Productive Evolution
A doctrine of intelligent design through evolution is not going to find many friends. It is destined to encounter opposition on all sides. Among scientists the backlog of evolution will have little p …
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Nicholas Rescher & Patrick Grim: Reflexivity
The book seeks to characterize reflexive conceptual structures more thoroughly and more precisely than has been done before, making explicit the structure of paradox and the clear connections to majo …
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€124.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophische Vorstellungen
Im Verlauf der vergangenen Jahrzehnte sind verschiedene Aufsätze Reschers in Deutsch erschienen, die in diesem Band zusammengefasst werden. Es handelt sich hauptsächlich um drei Themengebiete: Erkenn …
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Nicholas Rescher: On Explaining Existence
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. What is at issue is not—and cannot b …
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€104.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Deliberations
Philosophical Deliberations continues for the 2011/12 biennium Rescher longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher: Reason and Religion
This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called “the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation” between science and religion. Its key thesis is that these two enterprise …
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Nicholas Rescher: Is Philosophy Dispensable?
During 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for formal presentation and for informal discussion with colleagues. While my forays …
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Nicholas Rescher: Issues in the Philosophy of Religion
Over the years Nicholas Rescher has published various essays on religious issues from a philosophical point of view. The chapters of the present volume collect these together, joining to them four fu …
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Nicholas Rescher: Dialectics
Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. …
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€124.95
Nicholas Rescher: Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays
Being and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphilosophy. In the way in which they shed new light on significant philosophical …
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€124.95
Nicholas Rescher: Wishful Thinking And Other Philosophical Reflections
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. …
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Nicholas Rescher: On Rules and Principles
The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher’s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive Systematization (Ox …
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€144.95
Nicholas Rescher: Essais sur les fondements de l’ontologie du procès
No detailed description available for ‘Essais sur les fondements de l’ontologie du procès’. Das E-Book Essais sur les fondements de l’ontologie du procès wird angeboten von De Gruyter und wurde mit f …
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€144.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in 20th Century Philosophy
Set of studies of various movements and developments in 20th century philosophy in which Nicholas Rescher was involved as a participant. Das E-Book Studies in 20th Century Philosophy wird angeboten v …
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€124.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Pragmatism
set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in traditional pragmatism and are important for the idealistic pragmatism Nicholas Rescher long was engaged in developing. …
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€119.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Idealism
set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in contemporary idealism and are important for the pragmatic idealism that Nicholas Rescher long was developing. …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Philosophical Inquiry
set of studies of various central problems in contemporary philosophy–particularly issues relating to the theory of knowledge and to philosophical inquiry itself (metaphilosophy). …
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€129.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Cognitive Finitude
For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects together these variou …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Social Philosophy
Nicholas Rescher’s interest in issues of social philosophy, now dating back over forty years, have resulted in four previous books: Distributive Justice (New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1966), Welfare: the …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Philosophical Anthropology
The place of humans in nature’s scheme of things and the conditions and circumstances of our existence have been at the forefront of philosophical deliberation since the very dawn of the subject. Ove …
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€129.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Value Theory
Since the late 1960’s Professor Rescher has carried on a series of investigations in value theory in an endeavor to clarify the nature of values and the ways in which they impact on human affairs. Th …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Metaphilosophy
While philosophers from Plato to Kant and beyond have discussed the mission and methodology of philosophy, this area of deliberation has only recently been acknowledged as a distinctive branch of phi …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in the History of Logic
It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher’s inte …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Since Rescher’s earliest publication of the middle 1950’s in this field, the philosophy of science has constituted one focus of his interest and preoccupation. Some dozen of Rescher’s contributions t …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism
For about a decade Nicholas Rescher directed the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science and he has published instructive studies in this field since the 1950’s. Some dozen of the …
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Nicholas Rescher: Value Matters
For many years value theory has figured high on the agenda of my interests, a fact attested by Introduction to Value Theory published by Prentice Hall in 1969. This interest has continued in recent y …
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€99.95
Nicholas Rescher: Ideas in Process
The book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of process philosophy for elucidating the historical development of philosophical ideas …
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Nicholas Rescher: Process Philosophical Deliberations
Process philosophy has established itself as one of the 20th century’s prime contributions to philosophical thought and Nicholas Rescher has for many years figured among its prime exponents. His new …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher: Epistemic Merit
The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topic …
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€104.95
Nicholas Rescher: Cosmos and Logos
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotl …
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Nicholas Rescher: Autobiography
This revised edition of his Autobiography brings up-to-date Rescher’s account of his life and work. The passage of years since the publication of an autobiographical work makes for its growing incomp …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Epistemology
No detailed description available for ‘Studies in Epistemology’. Das E-Book Studies in Epistemology wird angeboten von De Gruyter und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Erkenntnistheorie, P …
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€89.95
Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology
No detailed description available for ‘Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology’. Das E-Book Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology wird angeboten von De Gruyter und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: Erkenn …
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Nicholas Rescher: Autobiography
Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long …
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Nicholas Rescher: Logical Inquiries
Logic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large. But in the first half of the twentieth century, it developed particularity with a view to mathematical applications, and the field of mat …
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€124.27
Nicholas Rescher: Logical Inquiries
Logic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large. But in the first half of the twentieth century, it developed particularity with a view to mathematical applications, and the field of mat …
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€114.95
Nicholas Rescher & Alasdair Urquhart: Temporal Logic
This book is an introduction to temporal logic, a now flourishing branch of philosophical logic whose origin is of recent date, its main impetus having been provided by the publication in the late 19 …
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€77.04
Nicholas Rescher: Conditionals
A unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades.This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seek …
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€57.80
Nicholas Rescher: Ignorance
Historically, there has been great deliberation about the limits of human knowledge. Isaac Newton, recognizing his own shortcomings, once described himself as "a boy standing on the seashore . . …
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Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Inquiries
In <i>Philosophical Inquiries, </i> Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to "q …
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Nicholas Rescher: A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes
Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical peri …
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€29.99
Nicholas Rescher: Espionage, Statecraft, and the Theory of Reporting
Everything we know about what goes on in the world comes to us through reports, information transmitted through human communication. We rely on reports, which can take any number of forms, to convey …
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Nicholas Rescher: Humanistic Philosophizing
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 philosopher t …
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€109.14
Nicholas Rescher: Logic of Commands
Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher’s aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a "logic of truth-f …
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Nicholas Rescher: Logic of Commands
Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher’s aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a "logic of truth-f …
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€41.00
Nicholas Rescher: On the Nature of Philosophy and Other Philosophical Essays
This book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in address …
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Nicholas Rescher: Interpreting Philosophy
Metaphilosophy is philosophy’s poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy doing philosophy to take time to stand back and consider reflectively how the project itself actually …
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Professor Nicholas Rescher: Reality and Its Appearance
In Reality and Its Appearance, Nicholas Rescher aims to address the conceptual and analytical question: how does the concept of reality function and how should we think with regard to the issue of re …
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Nicholas Rescher: The Realm of Facts
Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it; they describe the processes and proceedings of rational inquiry. T …
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Nicholas Rescher: Knowledge at the Boundaries
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. The essays collected in this volume expound and extend these …
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€106.99
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Dialectics
While the pursuit of philosophy ‘of’ studies—of science, of art, of politics—has blossomed, the philosophy of philosophy remains a comparatively neglected domain. In this book, Nicholas Rescher fills …
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€31.99
Nicholas Rescher: Epistemology
Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the developme …
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€36.99
Nicholas Rescher: Process Metaphysics
This is a synoptic, compact, and accessible exposition for readers who want to inform themselves regarding this influential and interesting sector of twentieth-century American philosophy. …
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€33.99
Nicholas Rescher: Ethics Matters
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 …
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€90.94
Andrew Wells Garnar & Ashley Shew: Feedback Loops
In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to …
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€44.94
Nicholas Rescher: Luck Theory
This book is an original—the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realizati …
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€80.24
Nicholas Rescher: Risk Theory
Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management, this book has one principal aim. With situations of chancy outcomes certain key factors—including outcome possibil …
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€69.54
Nicholas Rescher: Complexity
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 th …
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€51.46
Nicholas Rescher: Complexity
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 th …
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€51.03
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophy Examined
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, stud …
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€104.95
Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Fallacies
This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There …
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€106.99
Nicholas Rescher: Ventures in Philosophical History
The best and most instructive way to learn about philosophy is by examining the history of the field. For it is here that we come to see how its particulars are identified and addressed by some of hu …
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€34.99
Nicholas Rescher: Ventures in Philosophical History
The best and most instructive way to learn about philosophy is by examining the history of the field. For it is here that we come to see how its particulars are identified and addressed by some of hu …
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Nicholas Rescher: Ethical Idealism
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …
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Nicholas Rescher: Essays in Philosophical Synthesis
This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems and topics bound together by links of reciprocal inter …
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Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Primer on Ethics and Morality
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ethics and morality, providing an account of what the field is about, what its demands are, and setting out the rationale for its injunctions. As a prim …
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Nicholas Rescher: Quantitative Studies in Philosophy
Philosophy and mathematics grew up together in the days of Pythagoras and Plato. Indeed, they have been in constant companionship and interaction ever since. This book examines 15 of these interactio …
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Nicholas Rescher: Philosophy Examined
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, stud …
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Nicholas Rescher: Realm of Facts
Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it; they describe the processes and proceedings of rational inquiry. T …
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John Earman & Allen Janis: Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds
The inaugural volume of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series, devoted to the work of philosopher Adolf GrŸnbaum, encompasses the philosophical problems of space, time, and cosmology, the nature of sci …
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Nicholas Rescher: Cognitive Pragmatism
In <i>Cognitive Pragmatism</i>, Nicholas Rescher tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence. In the authoritative voice and calculat …
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Nicholas Rescher: Cognitive Harmony
This novel approach to epistemological discourse explains the complex but crucial role that systematization plays-not just for the organization of what we know, but also for its validation. <i> …
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Nicholas Rescher: Epistemic Logic
Epistemic logic is the branch of philosophical thought that seeks to formalize the discourse about knowledge. Its object is to articulate and clarify the general principles of reasoning about claims …
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Nicholas Rescher: Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology
An examination of philosophical realism from the standpoint of pragmatic epistemology, <i>Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology</i> addresses the core idea of Rescher's work in epistemol …
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Nicholas Rescher: Error
In <i>Error, </i> Nicholas Rescher presents a fresh analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Rescher maintains that error …
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Nicholas Rescher: G. W. Leibniz’s Monadology
G.W. Leibniz’s <i>Monadology</i>, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy and one of its most puzzling production …
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Nicholas Rescher: The Limits Of Science
Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what we do and can attain. This lies at the core of various debates in the philosophy of …
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Nicholas Rescher: Philosophical Standardism
Now in paperback, <i>Philosophical Standardism</i> is ideal for bringing one of the field's preeminent scholars into the classroom. In this novel empirical treatment of fundamental is …
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Nicholas Rescher: Luck
Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong—though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in …
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Nicholas Rescher: Aporetics
The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. In <i>Aporetics, </i> Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but coll …
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Nicholas Rescher: Process Philosophy
<i>Process Philosophy </i>surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, …
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Nicholas Rescher: Al-Farabi
Abu Nasur al-Farabi (ca. 872-950) was an Arabic polymath and philosopher, and the first Arabic logician credited with developing a non-Aristotelian logic. He discussed the topics of future contingent …
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Nicholas Rescher: Al-Farabi’s Short Commentary on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics
During the years 800-1200 A.D., Arabic scholars studied many of the works of Greek philosophy, and recorded their interpretations. Significant Arabic interpretations of Aristotle's Prior Analytic …
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Nicholas Rescher: Al-Kindi
In his day, al-Kindi (ca. 805-870) was the only philosopher of pure Arab descent, and became known as "the philosopher of the Arabs." He was one of the first Arab scholars interested in a s …
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Nicholas Rescher: Galen and the Syllogism
In this book, Nicholas Rescher seeks to settle debates about whether Galen originated the fourth figure of the categorical syllogism. For his definitive evidence, Rescher examines Arabic sources, one …
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Nicholas Rescher: The Logic of Decision and Action
The four main essays in this volume investigate new sectors of the theory of decision, preference, act-characteristics, and action analysis. Herbert A. Simon applies tools developed in the theory of …
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Nicholas Rescher: Studies in Arabic Philosophy
Nicholas Rescher presents ten essays that offer the thoughts of major Arabic philosophers in history and speak to their origins in Greek philosophy, as well as the subsequent influence of Arabic phil …
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Nicholas Rescher: Essays in Philosophical Analysis
This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics …
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Nicholas Rescher: Welfare
Nicholas Rescher examines the controversial social issue of the welfare state, and offers philosophical thoughts on the limits and liabilities of government and society. Questioning some of the princ …
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Nicholas Rescher: Unselfishness
In <i>Unselfishness</i>, Nicholas Rescher criticizes the stance of many contemporary moral philosophers and social theorists-that rationality conflicts with morality, and instead defends …
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Nicholas Rescher: Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress
Nicholas Rescher examines a number of controversial social issues using the intellectual tools of the philosopher, in an attempt to clarify some of the complexities of modern society, technology, and …
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Nicholas Rescher: The Strife of Systems
The disagreement of philosophers is notorious. In this book, Rescher develops a theory that accounts for this conflict and shows how the basis for philosophical disagreement roots in divergent 'c …
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Nicholas Rescher: Cognitive Economy
Cost, expected benefits, and risks are paramount in grant agencies' decisions to fund scientific research. In Cognitive Economy, Nicholas Rescher outlines a general theory for the cost-effective …
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Nicholas Rescher: On Leibniz
Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as "the most intelligent human being who has ever lived." The German philosopher, mathematician, …
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