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• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralProcess Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the ph...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralNicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical an...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: CriticismSince Rescher's earliest publication of the middle 1950's in this field, the philosophy of science has constituted one focus of his interest a...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: GeneralIn Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concern...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThe nine original essays collected in this volume explore the themes of philosophical progress, ultimate explanation, the ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernNo descriptive material is available for this title.

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThis book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new i...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralPhilosophizing is an activity--a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures. But philosophy itself--the product of ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modernset of studies of various central problems in contemporary philosophy--particularly issues relating to the theory of know...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: LogicLogic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large. But in the first half of the twentieth century, it developed particularity with a vi...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDuring 2005-2006 I continued my longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical topics, both for for...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe book aims to provide a process-philosophical perspective philosophizing itself. It employs the perspectives of proce...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralDuring 2007-2008 Nicholas Rescher continued his longstanding practice of writing occasional studies on philosophical top...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralOn Certainty continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider progra...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: MethodologyThe disagreement of philosophers is notorious. In this book, Rescher develops a theory that accounts...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBeing and Value collects together fifteen essays by Nicholas Rescher on salient issue in metaphysics, axiology and metaphi...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: CriticismMetaphilosophy is philosophy's poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy doing philosophy to take time to stand back a...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc • BISAC: LanguageConcept Audits explores the obligation of philosophers to honor the existing meanings of terms and concepts such ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Anthem Press • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalThe best and most instructive way to learn about philosophy is by examining the history of the field. For it is her...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasonin...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: MethodologyA study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing a clear view of the scope and limits...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MethodologyPhilosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is al...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverThis book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philos...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: PoliticalThe present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy's all-time greats. The s...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe place of humans in nature's scheme of things and the conditions and circumstances of our existence have been at the f...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsNicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that the historical perspective and forward-thinking normative, or sy...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe studies collected here are united both by a common methodology of p...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy m...

• Author(s): Nicholas Rescher • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: 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; they ...