Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers

Volumes 10-14

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ontos verlag
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783938793244
• ISBN-10: 3938793244
• Artikelnr.: 22071646

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. 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 Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.
ontos verlag has published a series of collected papers of Nicholas Rescher in three parts with altogether thirteen volumes, each of which will contain roughly ten chapters/essays (some new and some previously published in scholarly journals). The thirteen volumes would cover the following range of topics.