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The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher

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Editors:
  1. Ernest Sosa

    1. Brown University, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 15)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Method of Applied Logic: Some Philosophical Considerations

    • Stephen Barker
    Pages 1-16

  3. Reply to Barker

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 17-18

  4. Rescher’s Hypothetical Reasoning: An Amendment

    • Nuel D. Belnap Jr.
    Pages 19-28

  5. Reply to Belnap

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 29-31

  6. Hypothetical Reasoning and Conditionals

    • Brian Ellis
    Pages 33-45

  7. Reply to Ellis

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 46-47

  8. Rescher’s Theory of Plausible Reasoning

    • L. Jonathan Cohen
    Pages 49-60

  9. Reply to L. J. Cohen

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 61-63

  10. A Modal Logic of Place

    • Georg Henrik Von Wright
    Pages 65-73

  11. Reply to Von Wright

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 74-75

  12. Familiar Mental Phenomena

    • Annette Baier
    Pages 77-94

  13. Reply to A. Baier

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 95-96

  14. Toward a Theory of Attributes

    • Roderick M. Chisholm
    Pages 97-105

  15. Reply to Chisholm

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 106-107

  16. Potentiality from Aristotle to Rescher and Back

    • Jude P. Dougherty
    Pages 109-122

  17. Reply to Dougherty

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 123-124

  18. Substances and Individual Notions

    • Hidé Ishiguro
    Pages 125-137

  19. Reply to Ishiguro

    • Nicholas Rescher
    Pages 138-139

  20. Utilitarianism and the Vicarious Affects

    • R. M. Hare
    Pages 141-152
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About this book

When I entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, Nicholas Rescher had just joined the department of philosophy' to begin, with Adolf Grunbaum, the building of what is now a philosophy center of worldwide renown. Very soon his exceptional energy and versatility were in evidence, as he founded the American Philosophical Quarterly, generated a constantly rising stack of preprints, pursued impor­ tant scholarly research in Arabic logic, taught a staggering diversity of histori­ cal and thematic courses, and obtained, in cooperation with Kurt Baier, a major grant for work in value theory. That is all part of the record. What may come as a surprise is that none of it was accomplished at the expense of his students. Papers were returned in a matter of days, often the next class meet­ ing. And so easily accessible was he for philosophical discussion that, since (inevitably) we shared many philosophical interests, I asked him to serve as my dissertation advisor. My work in connection with this project led to a couple of journal articles while his, characteristically, led to a book. Our dis­ cussions certainly helped me, and while they may also have had some small influence on him, in the end our views were quite distinct. I was not only allowed complete independence, but was positively encouraged to think of my own ideas and to develop them independently. The length and breadth of Rescher's bibliography defy belief.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brown University, USA

    Ernest Sosa

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher

  • Book Subtitle: Discussion and Replies

  • Editors: Ernest Sosa

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9407-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0962-2Published: 31 August 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9409-6Published: 10 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9407-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 237

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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