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  • Theory of Categories
    Dr. Nicholas Rescher / Dr. Patrick Grim
    Categorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world-indeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal instrument for scientific systemization, featured as a basis for the philosophical understanding of reality since Aristotle, but classificatory concepts of sorts, types and natural kinds in...
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    50,44 €

  • A PHILOSOPHER’S STORY
    Nicholas Rescher
    Nicholas Rescher refugeed to the U.S. from Nazi Germany in 1938 at the age of ten and found a niche there as a philosophy professor in a circuitous route via service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, followed by a stint as think-tank researcher at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. In due course he became a prolific contributor to philosophical research and...
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    178,32 €

  • Kant Essays
    Nicholas Rescher
    More than two centuries after his death, the influence of Immanuel Kant continues to loom large on the philosophical scene. The essays collected in the book consider various key aspects of his many-sided philosophical work. Addressing issues on metaphysics, epistemology, and metaphilosophy, they represent their authors multi-decade preoccupation with the thought and influence o...
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    142,77 €

  • Ethical Studies
    Nicholas Rescher
    The book collects together various studies on issues of moral philosophy which the author has contributed to the professional literature of the subject over the years. Covering a wide range from the human condition at large and the foundation of justice questions of economics and professional responsibility, it illustrates from varying viewpoints the author’s characteristic met...
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    185,84 €

  • Leibniz Essays
    Nicholas Rescher
    It has been said, and may well be true, that Leibniz is the smartest person who ever lived. And there is no question but that he ranks high among mankind’s small number of universal geniuses who made strikingly original contributions in every then-existing field of learning. The studies that are brought together here are new and heretofore unpublished investigations of various ...
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    153,10 €

  • Transcendence
    Nicholas Rescher
    The book’s dealings with the unknowable must address the question of whether its focus of concern is with the problematic nature of the unknowns themselves or with the problematic nature of our knowledge of them? Are we engaging ontology or epistemology? The answer is that in this context there is no separating them. In this context of cognitive objects as such we cannot deal w...
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    133,82 €

  • Religion and Science
    Nicholas Rescher
    The book presents reasons why there is, or should be, no clash or contradiction among religion, philosophy, and science. All three of these characteristic human enterprises can and should complement and support one another. ...
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    142,79 €

  • Essays in Philosophical Synthesis
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book presents a series of coordinated studies that explain and illustrate how philosophy must be developed systematically with its problems and topics bound together by links of reciprocal interconnection.The book consists of two parts: The first part consists of a series of case studies which illustrate how philosophical issues do not remain in neatly separated compartmen...
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    48,36 €

  • Philosophical Fallacies
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book examines the nature, sources, and implications of fallacies in philosophical reasoning. In doing so, it illustrates and evaluates various historical instances of this phenomenon. There is widespread interest in the practice and products of philosophizing, yet the important issue of fallacious reasoning in these matters has been effectively untouched. Nicholas Rescher ...
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    134,63 €

  • Luck Theory
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book is an original-the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire range of our pre-systematic understanding of the way in which luck functions in human affairs. ...
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    97,81 €

  • Ethics Matters
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book covers a varied spectrum of ethical topics, ranging from the fundamental considerations regarding ethical values, to the rationale of obligation, and the ethical management of societal and personal affairs. Nicholas Rescher shows how fundamental general principles underpin the pragmatic stance we can appropriately take on questions of specific ethical detail. His work...
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    121,92 €

  • Risk Theory
    Nicholas Rescher
    Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management,  this book has one principal aim. With situations of chancy outcomes certain key factors-including outcome possibilities, overall expectation, threat, and even luck-are measurable parameters. But risk is something different: it is not measurable a single parametric quantity, but a many-sided factor th...
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    79,28 €

  • Knowledge at the Boundaries
    Nicholas Rescher
    The book offers a reflection on the nature, scope, and limits of knowledge that have been at the focus of the author’s work over decades. The essays collected in this volume expound and extend these efforts in exploring the outer fringes of understanding: the outer boundaries of conceivability, the limits of cognition, and the ramifications of ineffability and paradox. They joi...
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    146,28 €

  • The Logic of Commands
    Nicholas Rescher
    Originally published in 1966. This book presents a tolerably accurate and precise account of the logically relevant facets of a command, to study the nature of 'inference' in reasonings involving commands, and above all to establish a viable concept of validity in command inference. ...
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    69,60 €

  • Complexity
    Nicholas Rescher
    Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature’s complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natural science can never be completed. This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it.Rescher’s overall lesson is that the management o ...
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    99,01 €

  • Concept Audits
    Nicholas Rescher
    Concept Audits explores the obligation of philosophers to honor the existing meanings of terms and concepts such as knowledge, truth, justice, and fairness. This book explains how philosophers’ treatments of topics relate to our presystematic understanding and how their deliberations should relate to the prevailing conception of the matters. ...
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    55,41 €

  • Value Reasoning
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is-or should be-a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational eval...
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    79,22 €

  • Inquiry Dynamics
    Nicholas Rescher
    Epistemology is more than the theory of knowledge. Its range of concern includes not only knowledge proper but also rational belief, probability, plausibility, evidentiation, and not least, erotetics, the business of raising and resolving questions. Aristotle indicated that human inquiry is grounded in wonder; when matters are so out of the ordinary we puzzle about the reason w...
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    94,16 €

  • Fairness
    Nicholas Rescher
    In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple ...
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    94,00 €

  • What If?
    Nicholas Rescher
    Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form ...
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    114,09 €

  • Infinite Regress
    Nicholas Rescher
    Infinite Regress examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress, and propositional regress. Also discussed is the history of regression stemming from ancient times, to medieval times, to early modern history ...
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    93,80 €

  • Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry
    Nicholas Rescher
    This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy. It does this not only by describing its mode of operation and explaining its legitimating rationale, but also by substantiating its claims by a series of instructive case studies. The unifying insight of this approach is that the natural criterion...
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    66,98 €

  • Free Will
    Nicholas Rescher
    This second edition of Free Will presents a complete treatment of the history of the debate over whether humans have free will ...
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    93,62 €

  • A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III
    Nicholas Rescher
    This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life’s work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking throughout his career. The three...
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    63,87 €

  • A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II
    Nicholas Rescher
    This is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life’s work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher’s numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking throughout his career. The ...
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    61,43 €

  • Reality and Its Appearance
    Nicholas Rescher
    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 rela...
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    67,27 €

  • Presumption and the Practices of Tentative Cognition
    Nicholas Rescher
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    64,42 €

  • Epistemetrics
    Nicholas Rescher
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    68,39 €

  • Unknowability
    Nicholas Rescher
    This philosophically rich volume examines the limits of human knowledge and considers their implications. ...
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    70,09 €

  • Epistemology
    Nicholas Rescher
    A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge.Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry. It examines how these principles analyze the course of scientific progress and how the development of...
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    50,50 €


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