Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical an... more

Categorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world--... more

This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must b... more

The book presents a detailed examination of many key aspects of philosophizing, ranging from the mis... more

. Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by presenting a systematic account of the principal ways in which philosophizing can go astray....... more

The best and most instructive way to learn about philosophy is by examining the history of the field... more

. Nicholas Rescher fills this gap by presenting a systematic account of the principal ways in which philosophizing can go astray....... more

Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how ... more

This book is an original--the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the ... more

values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows...... more

Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management, this book has one prin... more

The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the foc... more

Originally published in 1966. This book presents a tolerably accurate and precise account of the log... more

This book is an original--the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the ... more

values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows...... more

The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the foc... more

Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how ... more

Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher’s aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general...... more

Concept Audits explores the obligation of philosophers to honor the existing meanings of terms and c... more

As a study in the methodology of metaphysics, the book seeks to show that ultimately Reality’s inher... more

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying t... more

Philosophical Pragmatism looks at human affairs and the condition of man from a purposive point of v... more

confusion, even in institutions of law, usage, and custom. In Fairness, Nicholas Rescher aims to liberate this concept from...... more

Vladimir Mikhailovitch Bekhterev was a pioneering Russian neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychologis... more

In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer...... more

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally foc... more

This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying t... more

Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge presents a compact account of the basic pr... more

Concept Audits explores the obligation of philosophers to honor the existing meanings of terms and c... more

No detailed description available for "Studies in Epistemology".... more

. Nicholas Rescher has published extensively on the history and theory of pragmatism and on its alignment to the sensibilities of...... more

the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical...... more

pragmatism. Rescher seeks to show how a pragmatic, user-oriented approach to knowledge can elucidate key issues of the field....... more

Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the...... more

findings in brain physiology counter-indicate free will. Nicholas Rescher leads the reader through a conceptual web of...... more

fashion, for almost three centuries it has baffled and beguiled those who have read it for the first time. Nicholas Rescher...... more

Nicholas Rescher unites two facets of metaphilosophy to show that the historical perspective and forward-thinking...... more

viable and does justice to traditional pragmatism s salient insights. Nicholas Rescher strives to return pragmatism to its...... more

, the metaphysics of free will, and the relation of sciences and religion. These essays exemplify Nicholas Rescher s...... more

work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher s numerous books and articles, which address almost every major...... more

the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical...... more

Logic is of course a general resource for reasoning at large. But in the first half of the twentieth... more

This book examines how pragmatism’s central idea can be applied and implemented across the entire ra... more

, broaden the traditional view of Leibniz. Rescher also views Leibniz’s scholarly development and professional career in...... more

This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called "the affable spirit of co... more

The present book continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated...... more

, Rescher develops and defends the following perspective: That rationality is a cardinal virtue in cognitive matters. That this...... more