Analytic Process philosophy Methodological pragmatism Pragmatic idealism Epistemic coherentism[1] Coherence theory of truth[2]
Institutions
University of Pittsburgh
Thesis
Leibniz' cosmology: a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Leibniz in the light of his physical theories (1951)
Doctoral advisor
Alonzo Church, Ledger Wood
Doctoral students
Alexander Pruss Ernest Sosa
Main interests
Philosophy of subjectivity, history of philosophy, epistemology, value theory
Notable ideas
Philosophical theory of everything, axiogenesis
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox philosopher with unknown parameter "influences"
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox philosopher with unknown parameter "influenced"
Nicholas Rescher (/ˈrɛʃər/; German:[ˈʁɛʃɐ]; 15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961. He was chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and chairman of the philosophy department.[3]
Rescher served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Leibniz Society of North America, American Metaphysical Society, American Philosophical Association, and Charles S. Peirce Society.[4] He was the founder of American Philosophical Quarterly,[5]History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Public Affairs Quarterly.[6] He died in Pittsburgh on January 5, 2024, at the age of 95.[7]
^Coherentist Theories of Epistemic Justification (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
^The Coherence Theory of Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
^Cite error: The named reference Pitt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Marsonet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Sosa & Cohen 1979, p. ix
^John Kekes (1995). "Nicholas Rescher, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, p. 771.
^"Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy—Dr. Nicholas Rescher". The Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. 5 January 2024.
NicholasRescher (/ˈrɛʃər/; German: [ˈʁɛʃɐ]; 15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor...
the limits of knowledge, the unknown unknowns, and chaos theory. NicholasRescher provides the most recent focused scholarship for this area in Unknowability:...
the study of the critical methods of science". Seventy years later, NicholasRescher responded that "Popper's critique touches only a hyperbolic version...
for the History and Philosophy of Science co-awarded Plantinga the NicholasRescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy, which he received with a talk titled...
The NicholasRescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy was established by the University of Pittsburgh in 2009 to counter present-day tendencies to narrow...
and logic, Putnam was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in 2011 and the NicholasRescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy in 2015. Putnam died at his home in...
reconstruction of epistemology pursued in the work of Isaac Levi. NicholasRescher advocates his version of methodological pragmatism, based on construing...
Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical...
Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, Templeton Press, 1st edition, 2008. NicholasRescher, 2000. Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic issues. Univ. of Pittsburgh...
University of Pittsburgh in 1964. His dissertation was supervised by NicholasRescher. He joined the Rutgers faculty in 2007, having taught at Brown University...
contemporary philosophers are also often considered to be neopragmatists: NicholasRescher (a proponent of methodological pragmatism and pragmatic idealism),...
academic journal covering philosophy. It was established in 1964 by NicholasRescher and is published quarterly by University of Illinois Press under license...
Hackett. Rescher, Nicholas (ed.), 1991. G. W. Leibniz's Monadology. An Edition for Students, University of Pittsburgh Press. Rescher, Nicholas, On Leibniz...
Antognazza, Maria Rosa (2016). Leibniz. Oxford University Press. NicholasRescher N., G. W. Leibniz's Monadology, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991...
ideas from Łoś. Work in positional temporal logics was continued by NicholasRescher in the 60s and 70s. In such works as Note on Chronological Logic (1966)...
[citation needed] "Berlin Circle" entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Berlin School of Logical Empiricism by NicholasRescher (Springer, 2006)....
existence if there is at least one actual object that instantiates it. NicholasRescher (1928-2024), by contrast, states that properties can exist if they...
Kochen, Maurice L'Abbé, Isaac Malitz, Gary R. Mar, Michael O. Rabin, NicholasRescher, Hartley Rogers, Jr., J. Barkley Rosser, Dana Scott, Raymond Smullyan...
television series. 5 January: Herbert Linge, 95, racing and rally driver. NicholasRescher, 95, German-American philosopher, founder of American Philosophical...
is an interpretation of Heraclitus's concepts into modern terms by NicholasRescher. "...reality is not a constellation of things at all, but one of processes...
Global Information