Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher was a German-American philosopher known for his extensive work in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and value theory. He authored over 100 books and spent his academic career as a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Rescher's contributions to process philosophy and pragmatic idealism were widely influential until his death in 2024.
Philosophy
Logic
Epistemology
Ignorance: (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge)
Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Methods of Science: The Metaphysics and Method of Science
A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes
Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge
Peirce's Philosophy of Science: Critical Studies in His Theory of Induction & Scientific Method
Value Matters: Studies in Axiology (Practical Philosophy, 8)
Rationality: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature and the Rationale of Reason (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy)
Ideas in Process: A Study on the Development of Philosophical Concepts (Process Thought, 22)
Philosophical Deliberations
Is Philosophy Dispensable?: And Other Philosophical Essays
Induction: An Essay on the Justification of Inductive Reasoning
Studies in the Philosophy of Science: A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement
Fairness
Metaphysical Perspectives
Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy)
Epistemic Pragmatism and Other Studies in the Theory of Knowledge
Epistemological Studies
The Riddle of Existence: An Essay in Idealistic Metaphysics