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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 …
On Rules and Principles
The present book is a natural outgrowth of Rescher’s longstanding preoccupation with the rational systematization of our knowledge as manifested in such earlier works as Cognitive …
Beyond Sets
This book is the product of a collaboration stretching the years 2007-10, whose initial fruit was a paper on “Plenum Theory” published in Nous. The work grew out of the author’s …
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, …
Reason and Religion
This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called "e;the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation"e; between science and religion. Its key …
Philosophical Pragmatism in Context
Philosophical Pragmatism in Context looks at human affairs and the condition of man from a purposive point of view. From this point of view it is a centrally significant feature of …
Human Interests
A Stanford University Press classic.
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III
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 …
Studies in Cognitive Finitude
For over thirty years Professor Rescher has been preoccupied with exploring the scope and limits of human knowledge from an array of different points of view. This book collects …
Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective
This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is …
Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing
The present book brings together several case studies, dealing with relevant facets of the work of some of philosophy's all-time greats. The subject-matter topic being addressed …