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1	Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist These essays are concerned with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest intentions and basic commitments. The first three essays deal with Kant's approach to things in themselves and with the realm of noumenal causality. The second part considers Kant's approach to the methodology of rational inquiry, and, in ... see all copies from £7.06! new only from £12.37! \| first editions
2	Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist In "Luck" an eminent philosopher offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck in order to come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £12.33! \| first editions
3	Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Methods of Science more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity. Rescher seeks to describe - in a way accessible to philosophers and nonphilosophers alike - the metaphysical situation that ... see all copies from £7.12! new only from £7.12!
4	Aporetics: Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £10.47! new only from £12.96! \| first editions
5	Nature and Understanding (the Metaphysics and Method of Science) more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Nature and Understanding explores the prospect of looking from a scientific point of view at such central ideas of traditional metaphysics as the simplicity of nature, its comprehensibility, or its systematic integrity. Rescher seeks to describe - in a way accessible to philosophers and nonphilosophers alike - the metaphysical situation that ... see all copies from £17.49! new only from £57.31!
6	Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Nicholas Rescher presents a critical reaction against two currently influential tendencies of thought. On the one hand, he rejects the facile relativism that pervades contemporary social and academic life. On the other hand, he opposes the rationalism inherent in neo-contractarian theory - both in the idealized communicative-contract version ... see all copies from £15.19! new only from £31.90! \| signed copies
7	Error: On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist In "Error", Nicholas Rescher presents a fresh analysis of the occurrence, causality, and consequences of error in human thought, action, and evaluation. Rescher maintains that error-avoidance and truth-achievement are distinct but equally important factors for rational inquiry, and that error is inherent in the human cognitive process (to err is ... see all copies from £13.48! new only from £13.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Philosophical Standardism: An Empiricist Approach to Philosophical Methodology more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist This study seeks to sidestep pretensions of necessity to allow a more modest and cautious perspective that asks what our experience of the world indicates to be the normal course of affairs. The author propounds an unorthodox approach to philosophy that is predicated on interpreting generalizations not as universals, but as standards. see all copies from £7.30! new only from £15.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist This volume examines the future prospects for research in the natural sciences and provides reasons for the cost-escalation of scientific work. see all copies from £6.63! new only from £28.85! \| first editions
10	Philosophical Reasoning more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist This book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. Accordingly, it is a venture in metaphilosophy, perhaps the most controversial of philosophical disciplines. Philosophy is caught in a dilemma. On one hand, its omission as a legitimate venture in empirical inquiry requires its looking to 'the big picture' and striving to counteract ... see all copies from £13.76! new only from £25.54!
11 view cover	Conditionals more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist This book by distinguished philosopher Nicholas Rescher seeks to clarify the idea of what a conditional says by elucidating the information that is normally transmitted by its utterance. The result is a unified treatment of conditionals based on epistemological principles rather than the semantical principles in vogue over recent decades. This ... see all copies from £19.81! new only from £21.66! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Limits of Science more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist In this text, the author focuses on what science can discover, not what it should discover. He explores the existence of limits or limitations on scientific inquiry, especially those that, in principle, preclude the full realization of the aims related to economic obstacles to scientific progress. see all copies from £10.46! new only from £16.17!
13 view cover	Topics in Philosophical Logic more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist see all copies from £12.26! new only from £98.54! \| first editions
14 view cover	Cognitive Pragmatism: The Theory of Knowledge in Pragmatic Perspective more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist This text tackles the major questions of philosophical inquiry, pondering the nature of truth and existence. It argues that the development of knowledge is a practice, pursued by humans because we have a need for its products. This approach satisfies our urge to make sense of our surroundings. see all copies from £16.60! new only from £18.88! \| first editions
15	Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Philosophical anthropology is the philosophical study of the conditions of human existence and the issues that confront people in the conduct of their everyday lives. This book surveys, from a contemplative, philosophical point of view, a wide variety of human-interest issues, including happiness, luck, aging, the meaning of life, optimism and ... see all copies from £9.28! new only from £34.38! \| first editions
16 view cover	Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist A study in philosophical methodology aimed at providing a clear view of the scope and limits of philosophical inquiry. see all copies from £11.73! new only from £11.73!
17 view cover	G. W. Leibniz's Monadology more books like this by Nicholas Rescher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz add to wishlist G.W. Leibniz's "Monadology," one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of the great classics of modern philosophy and one of its most puzzling productions. Because the essay is written in so condensed and compact a fashion, for almost three centuries it has baffled and beguiled those who read it for the first time. ... see all copies from £11.52! new only from £16.54! \| first editions
18	Philosophical Problems of the Internal & External Worlds: Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grunbaum more books like this by Nicholas Rescher (Editor), Allen I. Janis (Editor), John Earman (Editor) add to wishlist One of a series of books to be published jointly by the presses of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Konstanz. The inaugural volume in this new series is devoted to the work of the philospher Adolf Gruenbaum, whose professional interests have ranged from the philosophy of physics to the foundations of psychoanalysis. see all copies from £30.79! new only from £35.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher: Discussion and Replies more books like this by Ernest Sosa (Editor), Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist see all copies from £41.17! new only from £64.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	Forbidden Knowledge more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist see all copies from £60.86! new only from £60.86!
21 view cover	Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist The future obviously matters to us. It is, after all, where we'll be spending the rest of our lives. We need some degree of foresight if we are to make effective plans for managing our affairs. Much that we would like to know in advance cannot be predicted. But a vast amount of successful prediction is nonetheless possible, especially in the ... see all copies from £10.27! new only from £17.27!
22 view cover	Scholastic Meditations more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist The 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. Distinguished author and philosopher Nicholas Rescher suggests that the Scholastic era - the 500-year period from Abelard to Suarez - was a model of ... see all copies from £25.69! new only from £35.87! \| first editions
23	Many-Valued Logic more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist A detailed discussion of many-valued logic which provides an integrated overview of its principal conceptions and major results. In addition, the text traces the historical developments of many-valued logic and analyzes the problem of "alternative logics" and the question of relativism. see all copies from £37.92! new only from £46.43! \| first editions
24 view cover	Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Nicholas Rescher's ability to discuss difficult philosophical issues in a clear and elegant fashion is well known. These three books resonate with the breadth and depth of understanding and the engaging prose he brings to all of his work. Together, these books present an integrated and unified approach to the key issues of epistemology. However, ... see all copies from £15.43! new only from £16.17! \| first editions
25 view cover	Epistemetrics more books like this by Nicholas Rescher add to wishlist Epistemetrics is not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information there is the discipline of scientometrics, represented by a journal of that very name. Science, however, does not have a monopoly on knowledge. It is one of our most important cognitive resources, it is not our only one. While scientometrics is a centerpiece ... see all copies from £33.42! new only from £44.23!

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