In a career extending over almost six decades, Nicholas Rescher has
conducted researches in almost every principal area of philosophy,
historical and systematic alike. In this extraordinary volume, two
dozen scholars join in offering penetrating discussions of various
facets of Rescher's investigations. The result is an instructively
critical panorama of the many-faceted contributions of this
important American philosopher. Born in Germany in 1928, Nicholas
Rescher came to the U.S. at the age of nine. He is University
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he
has also served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department and as
director (and currently chairman) of the Center for Philosophy of
Science. In a productive research career extending over six
decades, he has established himself as a systematic philosopher of
the old style. His work represents a many-sided approach to
fundamental philosophical issues that weaves together threads of
thought from continental idealism and American pragmatism. And
apart from this larger program Rescher has made various specific
contributions to logic (the conception autodescriptive systems of
many-sided logic), the history of logic (the medieval Arabic theory
of modal syllogistic), to the theory of knowledge (epistemetrics as
a quantitative approach in theoretical epistemology), and to the
philosophy of science (the theory of a logarithmic retardation of
scientific progress). Rescher has also worked in the area of
futuristics, and along with Olaf Helmer and Norman Dalkey is
co-inaugurator of the so-called Delphi method of forecasting. Ten
books about Rescher's philosophy have been published in four
languages. Rescher earned his doctorate at Princeton in 1951 while
still at the age of twenty-two-a record for Princeton's Department
of Philosophy. He has served as a President of the American
Philosophical Association, of the American Catholic Philosophy
Association, of the American G. W. Leibniz Society, of the C. S.
Peirce Society, and of the American Metaphysical Society. He was
the founder of the American Philosophical Quarterly. An honorary
member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to
membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia
Europaea), the Royal Society of Canada, the Institut International
de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held
visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and
Marburg, he has been awarded fellowships by the Ford, Guggenheim,
and National Science Foundations. Author of some hundred books
ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them
translated from English into other languages, he is the recipient
of eight honorary degrees from universities on three continents. He
was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic
Scholarship in 1984, the Belgian Prix Mercier in 2005, and the
Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in
2007.
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