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Espionage, Statecraft, and the Theory of Reporting
Everything we know about what goes on in the world comes to us through reports, information transmitted through human communication. We rely on reports, which can take any number …
Philosophical Fallacies
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 …
Process Philosophy
Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, …
Philosophical Encounters
Reality and Its Appearance
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 …
Nature and Understanding
Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its …
The Philosophical I
Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. …
On Leibniz
Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) as \u201cthe most intelligent human being who has ever lived.\u201d The German …
Inquiry Dynamics
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 …
Pragmatism
Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called …
The Heritage of Logical Positivism
These essays originated from an international conference of the same name. The collection brings together philosophers and historians of philosophy for fruitful interchange to …
Philosophical Standardism
Philosophical Standardism is ideal for bringing one of the field\u2019s preeminent scholars into the classroom. In this novel empirical treatment of fundamental issues in …