Autobiography / Nicholas Rescher.

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Rescher, Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Collected Papers ; Suppl. vol.Publisher: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2007Description: 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9783110332544
311033254X
3938793597
9783938793596
3110332426
9783110332421

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B945.R454 A3 2007eb

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Contents:

Preface; ONE: Family Background; TWO: A German Childhood-Hagen: 1928-1938; THREE: An Immigrant Boy-Beechhurst: 1938-1942; FOUR: High School Days: 1942-1946; FIVE: Queens College-Flushing: 1946-1949; SIX: Princeton University: 1949-1952; SEVEN: U.S.M.C.-Washington, DC: 1952-1954; EIGHT: The RAND Corporation-Santa Monica: 1954-1956; NINE: Lehigh University-Bethlehem: 1957-1961; TEN: Pittsburgh-The First Years: 1961-1966; ELEVEN: Pittsburgh-The Years of Change: 1966-1971; TWELVE: Pittsburgh and Oxford: 1971-1974; THIRTEEN: Squirrel Hill: 1975-1980; FOURTEEN: Wanderings: 1981-1985.

FIFTEEN: Active Years: 1985-1989SIXTEEN: Changing Priorities: 1990-1995; SEVENTEEN: At the Dawn of a New Millennium: 1996-2002; EIGHTEEN: Moving On: 2003-2007; NINETEEN: A Philosophical Retrospect; APPENDIX 1: Autodoxography; APPENDIX 2: The Reschers of Hochberg; APPENDIX 3: The Landaus of Neukirchen and Goddelsheim; APPENDIX 4: Reference for Work by and about Nicholas Rescher; NAME INDEX.

Summary: Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a c.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a c.

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