Studies in Epistemology - Rescher, Nicholas
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Over the past forty years Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from Hypothetical Reasoning (1964) to Epistemetrics (2006) as well as various articles on particular issues and problems. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.

Produktbeschreibung
Over the past forty years Nicholas Rescher has carried on a series of investigations on epistemology which have issued in some dozen books ranging from Hypothetical Reasoning (1964) to Epistemetrics (2006) as well as various articles on particular issues and problems. Ten of these are gathered together in the present volume, and combine to provide a panoramic overview of the methods and results of his work in the field.
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.