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Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
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Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113214071
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123441441
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
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Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015014140225
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847679365
The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationally is to 'act for the best', a theory Nathanson characterizes as "critical pluralism". Among present-day thinkers whose ideas are scrutinized are Richard Brandt, Bernard Gert, Gilbert Harman, John Kekes, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, and John Rawls.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441188908
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 reality's relations to appearances? Rescher argues that the distinction between reality and its appearance is not a substantive distinction between two types of being, but rather relates to different ways of understanding one selfsame mode of being. The book proposes that while realism is a sensible and tenable position, nevertheless there is something to be said for idealism as well. In the cognitive as in the moral life, perfection is beyond our human grasp and we have no choice but to rest content with the best that we can manage to achieve in practice. This perspective shifts the approach from a cognitive absolutism to a pragmatism that is prepared to come to terms with the limitations inherent in our situations. On this basis Rescher defends a substantive realism that itself rests on a justificatory rationale of a decidedly pragmatic orientation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B3918969
Author : Kenneth G. Lucey,Tibor R. Machan
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Allanheld
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005897742
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040580446
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Catholic Church and philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020575648
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527575776
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 interactions, some dealing with the greats of history such as Aristotle and Leibniz, some addressing modern greats such as Einstein, Schrodinger, and Gödel, and some dealing not with themes, but rather the thinkers. Taken together they represent a characteristic sampling of the author’s philosophical investigations over more than three decades.
Author : Robert Almeder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110329094
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. S. Peirce Society, and of the American Metaphysical Society. He was the founder of the American Philosophical Quarterly. 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 Royal Society of Canada, the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, he has been awarded fellowships by the Ford, Guggenheim, and National Science Foundations. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated from English into other languages, he is the recipient of eight honorary degrees from universities on three continents. He was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984, the Belgian Prix Mercier in 2005, and the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 2007.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015034901689
This is a collection of essays in the history of philosophy, ranging from the cosmic evolution in Anaximander, through Leibniz on creation, to the present state of American philosophy.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0819144711
These essays originated from an international conference of the same name. The collection brings together philosophers and historians of philosophy for fruitful interchange to foster the current revival of interest in this important sector of 20th century philosophy. Contents: Empiricism: The Key Question, Wesley C. Salmon; Pragmatics and the Principle of Empiricism, Brian Skyrms; The Logic of 20th Century Empiricism, Joseph Hanna; Reduction Sentence "Meaning Postulates", James H. Fetzer; The Context of Justification, John Kekes; Logical Positivism and the Demise of "Moral Science", Geoffrey Sayre-McCord; "The First Man who almost wholly understands me": Carnap, Dingler and Conventionalism; Conventionalism Reconsidered, Werner Diederick; Carnap's Scientific Realism: Irenic or Ironic?, Richard Creath; Idealism and the Aufbau, Alberto Coffa; The Neo-Kantian Origin of Hans Reichenbach's Principle of Induction, A. Kamlah. Co-published with the Center for Philosophy of Science.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Catholic Church and philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114611374
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812695658
Nicholas Rescher surveys and analyzes the different kinds of unreal possibilities and nonexistent objects, tying together all the diverse ways in which this area has been approached by philosophers. As he surveys the field and clarifies the kinds of unreality, he also makes a sustained argument against the philosophical fashion for dealing with nonexistent possible world as though they were authentic objects. The author holds that, while we may discuss possibilities, we ought not to accord them ontological status. The possibility of existence of a certain sort of world is not the existence of possible world of a certain sort. While we may reasonable discuss possibilities at the generic level, such as a world where dogs have horns, this does not require a commitment to a possible world where they do. The work that theorists of logic and language want to accomplish with possible worlds and individuals can be managed with propositional manifolds, stories or scenarios, while the modalities of necessity and possibility that modal logicians want to analyze in terms of realization in possible worlds can be handled by turning instead to figuring in stories or scenarios.