Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy tha...

The nine original essays collected in this volume explore the themes of philosophical progress, u...

The book presents a detailed examination of many key aspects of philosophizing, ranging from the ...

Philosophical Deliberations continues for the 2011-12 biennium Rescher longstanding practice of p...

Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine ...

Presumption is a remarkably versatile and pervasively useful resource. Firmly grounded in the law...

Develops a general theory of prediction that encompasses its fundamental principles, methodology,...

It has been said, and may well be true, that Leibniz is the smartest person who ever lived. And t...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort zur englischen Ausgabe (1978) -- Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe -- Inhalt -...

The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work o...

The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher's longstanding preoccupation with the rational...

The book examines some dozen fundamental ideas and principles at issue in ethical and moral delib...

This book is an integrated series of philosophical investigations that offers significant new ins...

The core of pragmatism lies in the concept of functional efficacy-of utility in short. And episte...

This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called 'the affable spirit of...

The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: ...

set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in traditional pragmatism and a...

Over the years Nicholas Rescher has published various essays on religious issues from a philosoph...

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of ...

For many years value theory has figured high on the agenda of my interests, a fact attested by In...

Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine ...

Metaphilosophy is philosophy's poor and neglected cousin. Philosophers are on the whole too busy ...

Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, p...

The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical ...

Nicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that the historical perspective and ...

In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and...

Epistemetrics is not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there i...

For teaching Leibniz - a philosopher as difficult as he is important - this is as good a work as ...

More than two centuries after his death, the influence of Immanuel Kant continues to loom large o...

The book's dealings with the unknowable must address the question of whether its focus of concern...

Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before th...

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifyin...

Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity,...

This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was...

This book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays....

Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such...

Nicholas Rescher presents a critical reaction against two currently influential tendencies of tho...

Philosopher Nicholas Rescher presents an original pragmatic defense of objectivity. He employs re...

The book sees to show that the present discussion so unfolds as to show that ultimately Reality's...

Since the late 1960's Professor Rescher has carried on a series of investigations in value theory...

Philosophizing is an activity-a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures. But philosophy i...

This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will syn...

The studies collected here are united both by a common methodology of probative investigation and...

Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyda...

Nicholas Rescher refugeed to the U.S. from Nazi Germany in 1938 at the age of ten and found a nic...

This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities o...

When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipl...

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally ...