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Rescher on Rationality, Values, and Social Responsibility: A Philosophical Portrait by Nicholas J. Moutafakis 9783110328677
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.12Nicholas Rescher stands as a major figure in American Philosophy today. His philosophical contribution, ranging over fifty years, is marked by a profound respect for the fate of the human condition... -
Idealism and Praxis: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher by Michele Marsonet 9783110328691
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.12This work manages to present a complete and informative overview of Nicholas Rescher's philosphy. A prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism and of 20th century's thought at large, Rescher... -
The Logic of Commands by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €38.53Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher's aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a "logic of... -
Autobiography by Nicholas Rescher 9783110330229
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €64.47This revised edition of his Autobiography brings up-to-date Rescher's account of his life and work. The passage of years since the publication of an autobiographical work makes for its growing... -
Ethical Idealism by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.32Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals explores the role of ideals in guiding human thought and action. The book argues that although ideals are often unrealistic and... -
The Metaphysics by Nicholas Rescher 9780879756710
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €17.34Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. It is traditionally characterised as the study of "being qua being" - of being in general rather than specifically of this or... -
Fairness Nicholas Rescher 9781138509993
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30In theory and practice, the notion of fairness is far from simple. The principle is often elusive and subject to confusion, even in institutions of law, usage, and custom. In Fairness, Nicholas... -
Epistemetrics by Nicholas Rescher 9780521861205
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €97.25When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by... -
Epistemetrics by Nicholas Rescher 9780521178501
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €48.77When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there was the discipline of scientometrics, represented by... -
Autobiography by Nicholas Rescher 9783110332421
RRP: €136.26Booksplease Price: €92.37Nicholas 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... -
Inquiry Dynamics Nicholas Rescher 9781138510982
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30Epistemology 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,... -
Reason and Religion by Nicholas Rescher 9783110320510
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €68.57This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called "the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation" between science and religion. Its key thesis is that these two... -
Philosophical Explorations by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319323
RRP: €126.74Booksplease Price: €86.04This book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays that originated in occasional lecture and conference presentations. Notwithstanding their topical... -
Epistemological Studies by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319149
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €77.11The present book continues Rescher's longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies written for formal presentation and informal discussion with colleagues. They form part of a wider program... -
Logic of Decision and Action, The by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: €53.49Booksplease Price: €50.04The four main essays in this volume investigate new sectors of the theory of decision, preference, act-characteristics, and action analysis. Herbert A. Simon applies tools developed in the theory of... -
Philosophical Inquiries by Nicholas Rescher 9780822960751
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €45.37In Philosophical Inquiries, Nicholas Rescher offers his perspectives on many of the foundational concerns of philosophy and reminds us that the purpose of philosophy is to “question the questions.”... -
Studies in Metaphilosophy by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325423
RRP: €141.02Booksplease Price: €95.34While philosophers from Plato to Kant and beyond have discussed the mission and methodology of philosophy, this area of deliberation has only recently been acknowledged as a distinctive branch of... -
Studies in Pragmatism by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325355
RRP: €126.74Booksplease Price: €86.04set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in traditional pragmatism and are important for the idealistic pragmatism Nicholas Rescher long was engaged in developing.Book... -
Philosophical Deliberations by Nicholas Rescher 9783110320497
RRP: €119.60Booksplease Price: €81.57Philosophical Deliberations continues for the 2011/12 biennium Rescher longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions... -
The Logic of Commands by Nicholas Rescher 9780367422561
Booksplease Price: €116.80Originally published in 1966. Professor Rescher's aim is to develop a "logic of commands" in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a "logic of... -
Studies in Idealism by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325362
RRP: €121.38Booksplease Price: €82.69set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in contemporary idealism and are important for the pragmatic idealism that Nicholas Rescher long was developing.Book InformationISBN... -
Studies in Epistemology by Nicholas Rescher 9783110332292
RRP: €98.77Booksplease Price: €67.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110332292Author Nicholas RescherFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint De GruyterPublisher De... -
Knowledge at the Boundaries by Nicholas Rescher 9783030484309
Booksplease Price: €121.62The 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... -
On Explaining Existence by Nicholas Rescher 9783110320138
RRP: €114.84Booksplease Price: €78.23No short book on the explanation of existence can afford the hubris of claiming to accomplish this task. And certainly no such claim can be or is being made here. What is at issue is not-and cannot... -
Metaphysical Perspectives by Nicholas Rescher 9780268102890
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.33In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher... -
On Rules and Principles by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319255
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.12The 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 Systematization... -
Scholastic Meditations by Nicholas Rescher 9780813232072
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The newest volume in the ongoing Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series comprises ten essays that mediate between Scholastic concerns and contemporary philosophical issues... -
On Leibniz: Expanded Edition by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: €63.01Booksplease Price: €58.80Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as “the most intelligent human being who has ever lived.” The German philosopher, mathematician, and... -
Ethical Idealism by Nicholas Rescher 9780520328914
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €33.63This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and... -
Philosophical Episodes by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319385
RRP: €157.08Booksplease Price: €106.12Philosophical work comes in different sizes: there are systemic treatises, monographic surveys, philosopher-expanding texts. But there is also room for smaller studies that focus on highly... -
Knowledge at the Boundaries by Nicholas Rescher 9783030484330
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €118.85The 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... -
Ventures in Philosophical History by Nicholas Rescher 9781839986345
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839986345Author Nicholas RescherFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
Studies in Quantitative Philosophizing by Nicholas Rescher 9783110319200
RRP: €136.26Booksplease Price: €92.37The 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 differs... -
Philosophical Pragmatism in Context by Nicholas Rescher 9781433150258
RRP: €96.69Booksplease Price: €85.64Philosophical 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 man that we humans... -
Studies in Cognitive Finitude by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325386
RRP: €121.38Booksplease Price: €82.69For 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 together these... -
Studies in Leibniz's Cosmology by Nicholas Rescher 9783110332308
RRP: €108.29Booksplease Price: €74.14No detailed description available for "Studies in Leibniz's Cosmology".Book InformationISBN 9783110332308Author Nicholas RescherFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint De GruyterPublisher De... -
Studies in the History of Logic by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325430
RRP: €121.38Booksplease Price: €82.69It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher's... -
Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism by Nicholas Rescher 9783110325454
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €64.47For about a decade Nicholas Rescher directed the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science and he has published instructive studies in this field since the 1950's. Some dozen of the... -
Complexity: A Philosophical Overview Nicholas Rescher 9781138508378
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.24Our 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... -
G.W. Leibniz's Monadology by Nicholas Rescher 9780415072847
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Should be an essential student text for those studying LeibnizAbout the AuthorNicholas RescherBook InformationISBN 9780415072847Author Nicholas RescherFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint...