Download or read book Collected Papers written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Ontos Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5-Volume Set. Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the American Metaphysical Society, the American G W Leibniz Society, and the C S Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984. Includes the following: Volume 5, Studies in Cognitive Finitude; Volume 6, Studies in Social Philosophy; Volume 7, Studies in Philosophical Anthropology; Volume 8, Studies in Value Theory; Volume 9, Studies in Metaphilosophy.
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Download or read book Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers Studies in cognitive finitude written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Studies in Social Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the material of four books and more than a dozen essays together to offer a panorama of Rescher's views on some of the key issues of the field, and to convey a sense of the procedural ways and means by which Rescher thinks that philosophical deliberations can serve to shed some instructive light on such ever-controversial matters. To think constructively in this domain, Rescher calls for implementing a quantitative approach from a moral perspective, and that neither the measurable quantities not the intangible values of the situation can be overlooked in a cogent assessment of the issues.
Download or read book Studies in Epistemology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past forty years Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from Hypothetical Reasoning (1964) to Epistemetrics (2006)--as well as various articles on particular issues and problems in the field. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.
Download or read book Studies in the History of Logic written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author's efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher's own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950's (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). Thereafter, during the 1960's he devoted considerable effort to the contributions of the medieval logicians of the Arabic-using world (here represented in Chapters 2-6). Moreover, Rescher have from time to time returned to the area to look at some aspects of the more recent scene, as Chapters 8-9 illustrate. In some instances the present essays have been overtaken by subsequent events -- events which in fact helped to promote. This is true in particular in chapter 6's work on Arabic work regarding temporal modalities, which was instrumental in evoking the important contributions of Tony Street of Cambridge University.
Download or read book Studies in Philosophical Anthropology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 time immemorial. This volume presents a sampling of Rescher's papers that best characterize his approach to these philosophically crucial concerns.
Download or read book Studies in Social Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by De Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Social Issues on Philosophical Perspective (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), Public Concerns (Lanham, MI: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and Fairness (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002). Additionally, however, he has during this time also written more than a dozen essays on various particular problems and issues of this domain-usually in response to the needs of some special occasion. The aim of the present volume is to collect this material together in coordinative conjunction. The resultant book will not only offer a panorama of Rescher's views on some of the key issues of the field, but also convey a sense of the procedural ways and means by which Rescher think that philosophical deliberations can serve to shed some instructive light on such ever-controversial matters. For Rescher is convinced in theory and has sought to illustrate in practice that constructive thinking in this domain calls for implementing a quantitative approach from a moral perspective, and that neither the measurable quantities not the intangible values of the situation can be overlooked in a cogent assessment of the issues. It is his hope that these essays will confirm the justice of this conviction.
Download or read book Studies in Leibniz s Cosmology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leibniz's optimalistic cosmology is one of the most controversial--and least appreciated--sectors of his philosophical system. How can contingency figure in a context where all truth is seen as analytic? Why should the best of possibilities be realized? And how can omni-necessitation be averted if an omni-benevolent deity must create the best possible world? Moreover, how can this supposedly best of possible worlds contain so much suffering and evil? Then too, how can there be a best, anyway, seeing that anything can be improved upon? And how can an imperfect creature of limited intelligence possibly hope to fathom such cosmic mysteries? All these questions convey objections to Leibnizian ideas that have been made repeatedly over many years. In actual fact, however, Leibniz anticipated them all. The aim of the present book is to lend plausibility to how he set about it.
Download or read book Studies in Metaphilosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 philosophy as such, duly entitled metaphilosophy. There are, as yet, very few books on the subject so that the present volume joins a rather select group. Professor Rescher has published in the field for some thirty years and this book gathers together a representative sampling of his contributions. Taken together these pieces convey an instructive overview of the field, as well as vividly conveying their author's take on the key issues that constitute its problem domain.
Download or read book Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unfolds a line of thought that runs as follows: A universe in which intelligent beings can evolve and thrive through processes of natural selection must, in substantial measure, be so constituted as though an intelligent agent or agency had designed it. If a world is to allow intelligent beings to emerge by natural processes, then its mode of operation must itself exhibit the definitive characteristics of an as-if-designed manifold of natural process. Because intelligence itself will figure at or near the top of the value-scale of an intelligent being, it is evident that any universe created by an intelligent agent or agency is bound to prioritize the needs and interests of intelligent agents. Its arrangements will accordingly conduce towards an intelligence-geared optimalism that envisions a nature whose operations foster the realization of optimal conditions for the functioning of intelligence. The world's intelligibility should accordingly occasion no surprise once one recognizes that intelligent beings exist within it.
Download or read book Studies in Epistemology written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Studies in Epistemology".
Download or read book Idealism and Praxis written by Michele Marsonet and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work manages to present a complete and informative overview of Nicholas Rescher’s philosphy. A prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism and of 20th century’s thought at large, Rescher wrote an impressive amount of volumes and essays on a wide variety of philosophical topics. The present book purports to make his theses and theories accessible in one single volume. Moreover, it provides an apparatus of references to the relevant literature produced by Rescher’s critics, and positions his work in the wider setting of its links with various contemporary American and European philosophers. The mixture of pragmatism and idealism, typical of Rescher’s stance, is carefully taken into account, along with his contributions to logic, philosophy of science, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, ethics, social and political philosophy.
Download or read book Studies in Social Philosophy written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects the material of four books and more than a dozen essays together to offer a panorama of Rescher's views on some of the key issues of the field, and to convey a sense of the procedural ways and means by which Rescher thinks that philosophical deliberations can serve to shed some instructive light on such ever-controversial matters. To think constructively in this domain, Rescher calls for implementing a quantitative approach from a moral perspective, and that neither the measurable quantities not the intangible values of the situation can be overlooked in a cogent assessment of the issues.
