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    Nicholas Rescher (/ˈrɛʃər/; German: [ˈʁɛʃɐ]; 15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor...
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  • the limits of knowledge, the unknown unknowns, and chaos theory. Nicholas Rescher provides the most recent focused scholarship for this area in Unknowability:...
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  • In "The Price of an Ultimate Theory", originally published in 2000, Nicholas Rescher specifies what he sees as the principal properties of a Theory of Everything...
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  • the study of the critical methods of science". Seventy years later, Nicholas Rescher responded that "Popper's critique touches only a hyperbolic version...
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    for the History and Philosophy of Science co-awarded Plantinga the Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy, which he received with a talk titled...
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    and logic, Putnam was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in 2011 and the Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy in 2015. Putnam died at his home in...
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    reconstruction of epistemology pursued in the work of Isaac Levi. Nicholas Rescher advocates his version of methodological pragmatism, based on construing...
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    Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical...
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    Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead, Templeton Press, 1st edition, 2008. Nicholas Rescher, 2000. Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic issues. Univ. of Pittsburgh...
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  • The Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy was established by the University of Pittsburgh in 2009 to counter present-day tendencies to narrow...
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  • Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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    Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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  • academic journal covering philosophy. It was established in 1964 by Nicholas Rescher and is published quarterly by University of Illinois Press under license...
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  • (1971–2008). Masood ur Rehman Usmani, Pakistani Islamic scholar, shot. Nicholas Rescher, 95, German-American philosopher, founder of American Philosophical...
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  • University of Pittsburgh in 1964. His dissertation was supervised by Nicholas Rescher. He joined the Rutgers faculty in 2007, having taught at Brown University...
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  • Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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  • National Lampoon) (b. 1942) James N. Purcell Jr., 85, author (b. 1938) Nicholas Rescher, 95, German-born philosopher, founder of American Philosophical Quarterly...
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    existence if there is at least one actual object that instantiates it. Nicholas Rescher (1928-2024), by contrast, states that properties can exist if they...
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  • Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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    Antognazza, Maria Rosa (2016). Leibniz. Oxford University Press. Nicholas Rescher N., G. W. Leibniz's Monadology, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991...
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    Hackett. Rescher, Nicholas (ed.), 1991. G. W. Leibniz's Monadology. An Edition for Students, University of Pittsburgh Press. Rescher, Nicholas, On Leibniz...
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  • television series. 5 January: Herbert Linge, 95, racing and rally driver. Nicholas Rescher, 95, German-American philosopher, founder of American Philosophical...
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  • Kochen, Maurice L'Abbé, Isaac Malitz, Gary R. Mar, Michael O. Rabin, Nicholas Rescher, Hartley Rogers, Jr., J. Barkley Rosser, Dana Scott, Raymond Smullyan...
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    Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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  • Icy Slopes of Logic. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Rescher, Nicholas. The Heritage of Logical Positivism. Lanham, MD: University Press...
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  • ideas from Łoś. Work in positional temporal logics was continued by Nicholas Rescher in the 60s and 70s. In such works as Note on Chronological Logic (1966)...
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  • [citation needed] "Berlin Circle" entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Berlin School of Logical Empiricism by Nicholas Rescher (Springer, 2006)....
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  • contemporary philosophers are also often considered to be neopragmatists: Nicholas Rescher (a proponent of methodological pragmatism and pragmatic idealism),...
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  • Ruth Millikan Alexander Pruss Nicholas Rescher Wilfrid Sellars Bas van Fraassen Pragmatism Susan Haack Nicholas Rescher Morton White Princeton Alonzo...
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    Rescher, Nicholas (2013). Being and Value and Other Philosophical Essays. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-938793-88-6. Rescher, Nicholas (2010)...
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