Overview :When I entered the graduate program in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, Nicholas Rescher had just joined the department o... Read More
Overview :When this book was originally published in 2006, Epistemetrics was not as yet a scholarly discipline. With regard to scientific information ... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :The book presents a detailed examination of many key aspects of philosophizing, ranging from the mission of philosophy, its method, its dial... Read More
Overview :This book is a study in the methodology of philosophical inquiry. It expounds and defends the thesis that systematization is the proper inst... Read More
Overview :The newest volume in the ongoing Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series comprises ten essays that mediate between Schola... Read More
Overview :Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated tha... Read More
Overview :While the pursuit of philosophy "of" studies--of science, of art, of politics--has blossomed, the philosophy of philosophy remains a compara... Read More
Overview :Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as "the most intelligent human being who has ev... Read More
Overview :Our world is enormously sophisticated and nature's complexity is literally inexhaustible. As a result, projects to describe and explain natu... Read More
Overview :In this book, Nicholas Rescher seeks to settle debates about whether Galen originated the fourth figure of the categorical syllogism. For hi... Read More
Overview :Paradoxes--sets of propositions that are individually plausible but collectively inconsistent--range from transparent tricks of word-play to... Read More