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Nicholas Rescher
Categories:
Author of:
- American Philosophy Today, and Other Philosophical Studies,
- Axiogenesis,
- Cognitive Complications,
- Communicative Pragmatism,
- Concept Audits,
- Enlightening Journey,
- Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective,
- Evolution, Cognition, and Realism,
- Metaphilosophy,
- Minding Matter,
- The Pragmatic Vision,
- Priceless Knowledge?,
- Profitable Speculations,
- Public Concerns,
- Reason and Reality,
- Sensible Decisions,
- Unknowability,
- A Useful Inheritance
Biography
Nicholas Rescher is distinguished university professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In a research career extending over six decades, he has published over three hundred articles and written over a hundred philosophy texts, including A System of Pragmatic Idealism, The Limits of Science, Conditionals, Philosophical Reasoning: A Study in the Methodology of Philosphizing, Enlightening Journey: The Autobiography of an American Scholar, and Unknowability: An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge.