books by Nicholas Rescher     books:     Nicholas Rescher      G. W. Leibniz's Monadology Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991 The edition to get What distinguishes this edition of the Monadology from all others is the extra material included by Rescher. Rescher has collected material from Leibniz's other writings which shed great light on the concepts in the Monadology. In addition, he had included his own ...             The Limits Of Science (The Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science) Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999 Perfected science is but an idealization that provides a useful contrast to highlight the limited character of what we do and can attain. This lies at the core of various debates in the philosophy of science and Rescher?s discussion focuses on the question: how far could science go in principle?what are the theoretical limits on science? He ...             Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution Nicholas Rescher Open Court, 2001 The first sentence of this review is true The title of this review is false. I love paradoxes. A good paradox is something like an incongruity in the structure of the Matrix, an indication that there's something not quite right about our take on reality. Jorge Luis Borges even took paradoxes as evidence of ...             Luck: The Brilliant Randomness Of Everyday Life Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 Luck or Cause-and-Effect Interconnections? We live in a world where our aims and goals, our "best-laid plans," and, indeed, our very lives are at the mercy of fortuitous chance and inscrutable contingency." Nicholas Rescher has written a book on luck that makes me feel lucky to have a dictionary close at ...             Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000 Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as ?process philosophy.? Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real?process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the ...             Free Will: A Philosophical Reappraisal Nicholas Rescher Transaction Publishers, 2008             Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) Nicholas Rescher Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 I hope this becomes a modern classic! Every time I get done reading one of the 80+ books by pragmatic philosohper Nicholas Rescher, I always have to pause and ask why he is not more well known. This book is everything one could want. The topic is relevant, the text is economical, terse and well layed out, ...             Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting Nicholas Rescher State University of New York Press, 1997 Everything about the future, by simple examples Rescher is an internationally known professor of philosophy, not a business guru who earns his living by selling " Predicting the future" -seminars. This is partly good news, partly bad news. The good news is that this is a serious book. It looks at the fundamental ...             Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy (Suny Series in Philosophy) Nicholas Rescher State University of New York Press, 1996 Life in process... Many theologians found in Alfred North Whitehead's ideas answers to questions they had been seeking, or, if the word `answers' is a bit too strong, at least a framework that had fewer problems than many more traditional ways of constructing theology. Process theology ...             Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy (Suny Series in Philosophy) Nicholas Rescher State University of New York Press, 2000 welcome clarity Rescher helps any person who yearns for clarity, but can't decipher apparently long-standing disputes between entrenched professionals. If you find yourself led to pragmatism, but are dismayed at the convoluted mess made of it, then consult Rescher. Take heart; you're ...             Ethical Idealism: An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals Nicholas Rescher University of California Press, 1992 Is it rational to strive for the unattainable? In this short and provocative study, Nicholas Rescher vigorously defends both the rationality and practicality of seriously pursuing impossible dreams.             Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009 The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. In Aporetics , Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic theory from other authors to form this ...             Evolution, Cognition, and Realism Nicholas Rescher University Press of America, 1990 This collection of essays originated from an interdisciplinary conference on "Evolutionary Epistemology" held in Pittsburgh in December of 1988 under the sponsorship of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science. Contents: Epistemological Roles for Selection Theory, by Donald T. Campbell; Evolutionary Models of Science, by ...             Metaphysics: The Key Issues from a Realistic Perspective Nicholas Rescher Prometheus Books, 2006 Mediocre, but has some redeeming qualities. In section 2 of chapter 7 of this book, Rescher has pasted verbatim most of section 7 from chapter 1. This is only one of several such incidents. Overall the book is poorly compiled and edited. In terms of content, the book is a mixed offering. Of course I ...             Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 An examination of philosophical realism from the standpoint of pragmatic epistemology, this book addresses the core idea of Rescher's work in epistemology: that functional and pragmatic concerns exert a controlling influence on the conduct of rational inquiry and on the ways in which we can and should regard its products. 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