Nicholas Rescher
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Nicholas Rescher (born July 15, 1928 in Hagen, Germany) is an American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the Co-Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. In a productive research career extending over six decades, Rescher has established himself as a systematic philosopher of the old style and author of a system of pragmatic idealism which weaves together threads of thought from continental idealism and American pragmatism. He is the exponent of a realistic pragmatism which, rejecting the deconstructive approach of some recent pragmatists, construes pragmatic efficacy as an evidential index for such normative features as truth and validity rather than being a substitute or replacement for them. And apart from this larger program Rescher’s many-sided work has made significant contributions to logic (the conception autodescriptive systems of many-valued logic), to the history of logic (the medieval Arabic theory of modal syllogistic), to the theory of knowledge (epistemetrics as a quantitative approach in theoretical epistemology), to the philosophy of science (in particular in its economic aspects and as regards the relation of science and religion). 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. The Encyclopedia of Bioethics credits Rescher with writing one of the very first articles in the field.
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- Related: American philosophy, Delphi method, Vagrant predicate
| Nicholas Rescher (Internet Encyclopedia of Philoso... Nicholas Rescher (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) www.iep.utm.edu/rescher/ - Web |
| Rescher's web page, with complete bibliography. Rescher's web page, with complete bibliography. www.pitt.edu/~rescher/ - Web |
| University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of ... University of Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/About/about.htm - Web |
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