Rescher studies : a collection of essays on the philosophical work of Nicholas Rescher / Robert Almeder, (ed.).

"Presented to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday."

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface: ROBERT Almeder; The Limits of Science, Realism, and IdealismRobert Almeder; On Possibilities and Thought ExperimentsDiderik Batens; Coherentism and Coherence Truth in thePhilosophy of Nicholas RescherBryson Brown; Philosophical AnthropologyJames W. Felt; Pluralism and ConsensusLenn E. Goodman; Meditations, Wagers, and ExistentialIssues: Nicholas Rescher on Religionand PhilosophyJohn Haldane; Rescher's MetaphysicsWilliam Jaworski; The Limits of Science ReconsideredUlrich Majer; ConceivabilityDiego Marconi1. RESCHER AND POSSIBILITY; Weird WorldsRobert K MeyerINTRODUCTION.

Nicholas Rescher on Greek Philosophy andthe SyllogismJürgen MittelstrassPeter Schroeder-HeisterRescher's Evolutionary EpistemologyJesús Mosterín; Common SenseJoseph C. Pitt; Systematic Philosophy and TheoreticalFramework on Nicholas Rescher's A Systemof Pragmatic IdealismLorenz B. Puntel; On Rescher's View of Idealism(and Pragmatism)Tom Rockmore; Rescher on Arabic LogicTony Street; Philosophy in the FutureAvrum Stroll; Rescher on Explanation and PredictionBas C. van Fraassen.

Nicholas Rescher on Scientific Progress:Science in the Face of Limited Cognitive andTechnological ResourcesTheodor LeiberRoland Wagner-DöblerRescher on Dialog Systems, Argumentation, and Burden of ProofDouglas WaltonDavid M. Godden; Rescher on Process ThoughtMichel Weber; How is Scientific Knowledge EconomicallyPossible?: Nicholas Rescher's Contributionsto an Economic Understanding of ScienceJames R. Wible; Possibility, Plenitude, and the OptimalWorld: Rescher on Leibniz's CosmologyCatherine Wilson; Rescher on Aporetics and ConsistencyJohn Woods; Responses to the Contributed Essays.

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 se.

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