Screen LibraryRescher studies : a collection of essays on the philosophical work of nicholas rescher /
In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy, historical and systematic alike. In this extraordinary volume, two dozen scholars join in offering penetrating discussions of various facets of Rescher s investigati...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
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[2008] ©2008 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reading rescher;
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In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy, historical and systematic alike. In this extraordinary volume, two dozen scholars join in offering penetrating discussions of various facets of Rescher s investigations. The result is an instructively critical panorama of the many-faceted contributions of this important American philosopher. Born in Germany in 1928, Nicholas Rescher came to the U.S. at the age of nine. He is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he has also served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department and as director (and currently chairman) of the Center for Philosophy of Science. In a productive research career extending over six decades, he has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style. His work represents a many-sided approach to fundamental philosophical issues that weaves together threads of thought from continental idealism and American pragmatism. And apart from this larger program Rescher has made various specific contributions to logic (the conception autodescriptive systems of many-sided logic), the history of logic (the medieval Arabic theory of modal syllogistic), to the theory of knowledge (epistemetrics as a quantitative approach in theoretical epistemology), and to the philosophy of science (the theory of a logarithmic retardation of scientific progress). Rescher has also worked in the area of futuristics, and along with Olaf Helmer and Norman Dalkey is co-inaugurator of the so-called Delphi method of forecasting. Ten books about Rescher s philosophy have been published in four languages. Rescher earned his doctorate at Princeton in 1951 while still at the age of twenty-two a record for Princeton s Department of Philosophy. He has served as a President of the American Philosophical Association, of the American Catholic Philosophy Association, of the American G. W. Leibniz Society, of the C |
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1 online resource (571 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Zahlr. Abb. |
| ISBN: | 9783110329094 |
| Index Number: | B945 |
| CLC: | B712.59 |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- The Limits of Science, Realism, and Idealism / On Possibilities and Thought Experiments / Coherentism and Coherence Truth in the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher / Philosophical Anthropology / Pluralism and Consensus / Meditations, Wagers, and Existential Issues: Nicholas Rescher on Religion and Philosophy / Rescher s Metaphysics / The Limits of Science Reconsidered / Conceivability / Weird Worlds / Nicholas Rescher on Greek Philosophy and the Syllogism / Rescher s Evolutionary Epistemology / Common Sense / Systematic Philosophy and Theoretical Framework on Nicholas Rescher s A System of Pragmatic Idealism / On Rescher s View of Idealism (and Pragmatism) / Rescher on Arabic Logic / Philosophy in the Future / Rescher on Explanation and Prediction / Nicholas Rescher on Scientific Progress: Science in the Face of Limited Cognitive and Technological Resources / Rescher on Dialog Systems, Argumentation, and Burden of Proof / Rescher on Process Thought / How is Scientific Knowledge Economically Possible?: Nicholas Rescher s Contributions to an Economic Understanding of Science / Possibility, Plenitude, and the Optimal World: Rescher on Leibniz s Cosmology / Rescher on Aporetics and Consistency / Responses to the Contributed Essays -- Work by and about Nicholas Rescher -- List of Contributors -- Backmatter. |