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Earman, John S., Janis, Allen I., Massey, Gerald J. and Rescher, Nicholas, eds. 1993. Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Grim, Patrick and Rescher, Nicholas. 2012. Reflexivity. From Paradox to Consciousness. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1954a. “Leibniz’s Interpretation of his Logical Calculus.” The Journal of Symbolic Logic 19: 1–13.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1954b. “Reasonableness in Ethics.” Philosophical Studies 5(4): 58–62.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1955a. “Axioms for the Part Relation.” Philosophical Studies 6(1): 8–11.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1955b. “Some Comments on Two-Valued Logic.” Philosophical Studies 6(4): 54–58.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1957. “Definitions of ‘Existence’ .” Philosophical Studies 8(5): 65–69.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1958a. “Can there be Random Individuals?” Analysis 18(5): 114–117.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1958b. “An Axiom System for Deontic Logic.” Philosophical Studies 9(1–2): 24–30.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1959. “The Legitimacy of Doubt.” The Review of Metaphysics 13(2): 226–234.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1960a. “Identity, Substitution, and Modality.” The Review of Metaphysics 14: 159–167.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1960b. “Choice without Preference. A Study of the History and of the Logic of the Problem of ‘Buridan’s Ass’ .” Kant-Studien 51(1): 142–175.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1960c. “A Factual Analysis of Counterfactual Conditionals.” Philosophical Studies 11(4): 49–54.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1961. “Non-Deductive Rules of Inference and Problems in the Analysis of Inductive Reasoning.” Synthese 13(3): 242–251.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1962a. “Plurality Quantification and Quasi-Categorical Propositions.” The Journal of Symbolic Logic 27: 373–374.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1962b. “Modality Conceived as a Status.” Logique et Analyse 5(19): 81–89.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1962c. “The Stochastic Revolution and the Nature of Scientific Explanation.” Synthese 14(2–3): 200–215.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1962d. “Conditional Permission in Deontic Logic.” Philosophical Studies 13(1–2): 1–6.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1963a. Al-Fārābī’s Short Commentary on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1963b. Studies in Arabic Philosophy. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1964a. “A Quantificational Treatment of Modality.” Logique et Analyse 7(25–26): 34–42.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1964b. “Predicate Logic Without Predicates.” Logique et Analyse 7(27): 101–103.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1964c. “Quantifiers in Many-Valued Logic.” Logique et Analyse 7(28): 181–184.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1964d. “Evaluative Metaphysics.” in Metaphysics and Explanation. Proceedings of the 1964 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, edited by William H. Capitan and Daniel D. Merrill, pp. 62–72. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1964e. “Rejoinders [to Beck (1964) and Patton (1964)].” in Metaphysics and Explanation. Proceedings of the 1964 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy, edited by William H. Capitan and Daniel D. Merrill, pp. 79–81. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1965a. “The Ethical Dimensions of Scientific Research.” in Beyond the Edge of Certainty: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy, edited by Robert G. Colodny, pp. 261–278. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 2. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Reprint: Colodny (1983).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1965b. “New Light from Arabic Sources on Galen and the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 3(1): 27–41.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1966a. The Logic of Commands. Monographs in Modern Logic. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1966b. “Notes on Preference, Utility and Cost.” Synthese 16(2): 332–343.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1966c. “Recent Developments and Trends in Logic.” Logique et Analyse 9(35–36): 269–279.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1966d. Galen and the Syllogism. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1967a. The Logic of Decision and Action. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967b. Temporal Modalities in Arabic Logic. Foundations of Language; Supplementary Series n. 2. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967c. “Avicenna on the Logic of Questions.” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 49(1): 1–6.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967d. “On the Logic of Presupposition.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 27: 521–527.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967e. The Philosophy of Leibniz. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967f. “Semantic Foundations for Conditional Permission.” Philosophical Studies 18(4): 56–61.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967g. “Semantic Foundations for the Logic of Preference.” in The Logic of Decision and Action, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 37–62. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967h. “Reply [to Anderson (1967) and Ackermann (1967)].” in The Logic of Decision and Action, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 77–80. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1967i. “Aspects of Action.” in The Logic of Decision and Action, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 215–220. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1968a. Studies in Logical Theory. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 2. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1968b. Topics in Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library n. 17. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1968c. “Logische Schwierigkeiten der Leibnizschen Metaphysik.” in Akten des Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses Hannover, 14.-19. November 1966. Bd. I: Metaphysik – Monadenlehre, edited by Kurt Müller and Wilhelm Totok, pp. 253–265. Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa n. 1. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1969a. Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. A Tribute on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Synthese Library n. 24. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1969b. Essays in Philosophical Analysis. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1969c. “The Illegitimacy of Cartesian Doubt.” in Essays in Philosophical Analysis, pp. 309–319. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1969d. “Lawfulness as Mind-Dependent.” in Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. A Tribute on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 178–197. Synthese Library n. 24. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1970. Studies in the Theory of Knowledge. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 4. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1972a. Studies in the Philosophy of Mind. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 6. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1972b. Welfare. The Social Issues in Philosophical Perspective. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1972c. “Noumenal Causality.” in Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress, Held at the University of Rochester, March 30 – April 4, 1970, edited by Lewis White Beck, pp. 462–470. Synthese Historical Library n. 4. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1973a. The Coherence Theory of Truth. London: Routledge.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1973b. “The Ontology of the Possible.” in Logic and Ontology, edited by Milton K. Munitz, pp. 213–228. New York: New York University Press. Reprinted in Loux (1979, 166–181).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1974a. Studies in Modality. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 8. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1974b. “Russell and Modal Logic.” in Studies in Modality, pp. 85–96. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 8. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted in Andrews (1979).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1974c. “Leibniz and the Evaluation of Possible Worlds.” in Studies in Modality. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 8. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted as “Leibniz on Creation and the Evaluation of Possible Worlds” in Rescher (1981a, 1–19).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1975a. A Theory of Possibility. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1975b. Studies in Epistemology. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 9. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1975c. “Leibniz und die Vollkommenheit der Welten.” in Akten des II. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses Hannover, 17.-22. Juli 1972. Bd. III: Metaphysik – Ethik – Ästhetik – Monadenlehre, edited by Kurt Müller, Heinrich Schepers, and Wilhelm Totok, pp. 1–14. Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa n. 14. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1976. “On First Principles and Their Legitimation.” Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2: 1–16.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1978a. Studies in Ontology. American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series n. 12. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1978b. Scientific Progress. A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1978c. “The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672–1676) to Leibniz’s Metaphysics.” in Magia naturalis und die Entstehung der modernen Naturwissenschaften, edited by Kurt Müller, Heinrich Schepers, and Wilhelm Totok, pp. 43–53. Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft n. 7. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. Reprinted in Rescher (1981a, 101–115).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979a. “Appearance and Reality.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 7–8: 123–144. “Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick Chisholm,” ed. by Ernest Sosa.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979b. “Reply [to Barker (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 17–18. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979c. “Reply [to Belnap (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 29–32. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979d. “Reply [to Ellis (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 46–48. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979e. “Reply [to Cohen (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 61–64. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979f. “Reply [to von Wright (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 74–76. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979g. “Reply [to Baier (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 95–96. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979h. “Reply [to Chisholm (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 106–108. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979i. “Reply [to Dougherty (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 123–124. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979j. “Reply [to Ishiguro (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 138–140. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979k. “Reply [to Hare (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 153–156. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979l. “Reply [to BonJour (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 173–174. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979m. “Reply [to Yolton (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 186–188. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979n. “Reply [to Butts (1979)].” in The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher. Discussion and Replies, edited by Ernest Sosa, pp. 204–206. Philosophical Studies Series n. 15. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1979o. “Technological Progress and Human Happiness.” Philosophic Exchange 10: 65–79.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1980a. Scepticism: A Critical Reappraisal. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1980b. “Conceptual Schemes.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5: Studies in Epistemology, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 323–346. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1980c. Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981a. Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature: A Group of Essays. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 18. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Revised and enlarged edition: Rescher (2003c).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981b. “On the Status of ‘Things in Themselves’ in Kant.” Synthese 47: 289–299. Also published in Funke (1981, I,1: 437–447).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981c. “Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations.” in Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature: A Group of Essays, pp. 42–55. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 18. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Simultaneously published in Parkinson (1981, 1–19).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981d. “Introduction.” in Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature: A Group of Essays, pp. xiii–. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 18. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Revised and enlarged edition: Rescher (2003c).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981e. “Leibniz and the Concept of a System.” Studia Leibnitiana 13(1): 114–122. Simultaneously published in Rescher (1981a, 42–55).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1981f. “Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks.” in Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature: A Group of Essays, pp. 84–100. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 18. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Revised and enlarged edition: Rescher (2003c).
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1983a. The Limits of Lawfulness: Studies on the Scope and Nature of Scientific Explanation. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 3. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1983b. Scientific Explanation and Understanding: Essays on Reasoning and Rationality in Science. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 4. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1983c. “The Limits of Science.” in Proceedings of the 7th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, edited by Paul Weingartner and Johannes Czermak, pp. 223–231. Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft n. 9. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1983d. “The Unpredictability of Future Science.” in Physics, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Laurens [Larry] Laudan, pp. 153–168. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 76. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1984. The Limits of Science. 1st ed. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. Second revised edition: Rescher (1999a).
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1985a. Reason and Rationality in Natural Science. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 6. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1985b. The Heritage of Logical Positivism. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 7. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1985c. The Strife of Systems. An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1985d. “Are Synoptic Questions Illegitimate?” Erkenntnis 22(1–3): 359–363. Reprinted in Essler, Putnam and Stegmüller (1985, 359–363).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1985e. “Extraterrestrial Science.” in Change and Progress in Modern Science, edited by Joseph C. Pitt, pp. 361–391. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 27. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1986. Current Issues in Theology. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 8. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1987a. Scientific Inquiry in Philosophical Perspective. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 9. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1987b. Scientific Realism. A Critical Reappraisal. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 40. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1987c. Ethical Idealism. An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, doi:10.2307/jj.5233063.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1987d. Induktion. Zur Rechtfertigung induktiven Schliessens. Philosophia Introductiones. München: Philosophia Verlag, doi:10.2307/j.ctv2x8v8gs.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1988. “Wie ist Naturwissenschaft möglich? Grundzüge eines naturalistischen Idealismus.” in Wozu Wissenschaftsphilosophie? Positionen und Fragen zur gegenwärtigen Wissenschaftsphilosophie, pp. 265–280. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1989. Leibnizian Inquiries: A Group of Essays. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 10. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1990a. Aesthetic Factors in Natural Science. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 11. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 1990b. Evolution, Cognition, and Realism: Studies in Evolutionary Epistemology. Center for Philosophy of Science Series n. 12. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1991. G.W. Leibniz’s Monadology. An Edition for Students. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1993a. “Moral Obligation and the Refugee.” in Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds. Essays on the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, edited by John S. Earman, Allen I. Janis, Gerald J. Massey, and Nicholas Rescher, pp. 615–624. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1993b. “Luck and the Enigmas of Fate.” Philosophic Exchange 24: 95–123.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1995a. Satisfying Reason. Studies in the Theory of Knowledge. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1995b. Unselfishness. The Role of the Vicarious Affects in Moral Philosophy and Social Theory. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1995c. Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198236016.001.0001.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1995d. “Truth Conditions vs. Use Conditions (A Study on the Utility of Pragmatics).” Logique et Analyse 38(150–152): 347–359.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1995e. “Philosophie am Ende des Jahrhunderts.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 43(5): 775–787.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1996a. Process Metaphysics. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1996b. “H2O: Hempel – Helmer – Oppenheim.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 44(5): 779–805.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1996c. “Leibniz on Possible Worlds.” Studia Leibnitiana 28(2): 129–162.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1997a. “Chisholm’s Ontology of Things.” in The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, pp. 187–199. The Library of Living Philosophers n. 25. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1997b. “Coping with Cognitive Limitations: Problems of Rationality in a Complex World.” Philosophic Exchange 27: 33–38.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1997c. “The Law of Logarithmic Returns and Its Implications.” in Issues and Images in the Philosophy of Science. Scientific and Philosophical Essays in Honour of Azarya Polikarov, edited by Dimitri Ginev and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 275–288. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 192. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas. 1999a. The Limits of Science. 2nd ed. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. First edition: Rescher (1984).
Rescher, Nicholas. 1999b. “Über einen zentralen Unterschied zwischen Theorie und Praxis.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 47(2): 171–182.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000a. Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant’s Theory of Rational Systemization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000b. “What if Things Were Different? Deliberations Regarding Counterfactual Conditionals and Nonexistent Worlds.” Metaphysica 1(2): 5–21.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000c. Nature and Understanding. The Metaphysics and Method of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000d. “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics.” The Review of Metaphysics 53(4): 807–835.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000e. “On the Rationale of Kant’s Categorical Imperative.” in Philosophie der Neuzeit: From Descartes to Kant, edited by Uwe Meixner and Albert Newen, pp. 185–208. Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy n. 3. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000f. “Kant on the Limits and Prospects of Philosophy – Kant, Pragmatism, and the Metaphysics of Virtual Reality.” Kant-Studien 91(3): 283–328.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000g. Philosophical Standardism. An Empirical Approach to Philosophical Methodology. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000h. Process Philosophy. A Survey of Basic Issues. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000i. “Limits of Science: Replies and Comments [on Almeder (2000), Ruetsche (2000), Mittelstrass (2000)].” in Science at Century’s End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, edited by Martin Carrier, Laura Ruetsche, and Gerald J. Massey, pp. 84–91. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2000j. “Can Computers Overcome Our Limitations?” in Science at Century’s End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, edited by Martin Carrier, Laura Ruetsche, and Gerald J. Massey, pp. 110–134. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2001a. Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range and Resolution. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2001b. “Contingentia Mundi. Leibniz on the World’s Contingency.” Studia Leibnitiana 33(2): 145–162.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2001c. Luck. The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2001d. Cognitive Pragmatism. The Theory of Knowledge in Pragmatic Perspective. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002a. “Process Philosophy.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries/process-philosophy/.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002b. “An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justificatory Idealism.” in The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by Richard M. Gale, pp. 242–262. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470998984.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002c. “Knowledge of the Truth in Pragmatic Perspective.” in Hilary Putnam. Pragmatism and Realism, edited by James Conant and Urszula M. Żegleń, pp. 66–79. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 10. London: Routledge.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002d. “Epistemic Logic.” in A Companion to Philosophical Logic, edited by Dale Jacquette, pp. 478–490. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470996751.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002e. “Principia Philosophiae: On the Nature of Philosophical Principles.” The Review of Metaphysics 56(1): 3–17.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002f. “Principia philosophiae.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50(2): 191–202.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2002g. “Leibniz on God’s Free Will and the World’s Contingency.” Studia Leibnitiana 34(2): 208–220.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003a. Epistemology. An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge. SUNY series in philosophy. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 2003b. Rationality in Pragmatic Perspective. Studies in History of Philosophy n. 72. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003c. On Leibniz. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. Second, expanded edition: Rescher (2013a).
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003d. Cognitive Idealization. On the Nature and Utility of Cognitive Ideals. Newcastle upon Tye: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003e. Nature and Understanding: The Metaphysics and Method of Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261826.001.0001.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003f. “By the Standards of Their Day.” The Monist 86(3): 469–480.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003g. “Nonexistents Then and Now.” The Review of Metaphysics 57(2): 359–381.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2003h. “Guest Editorial: Referential Analysis in Philosophy.” American Philosophical Quarterly 40(3): 169–174.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2004a. “Sosa and Epistemic Justification.” in Ernest Sosa and His Critics, edited by John Greco, pp. 145–164. Philosophers and Their Critics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756140.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2004b. “Leibniz’s Quantitative Epistemology.” Studia Leibnitiana 36(2): 210–231.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005a. Common Sense: A New Look at an Old Philosophical Tradition. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press. The Aquinas Lecture, 2005.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005b. “The Fallacy of Respect Neglect.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71(2): 392–398.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005c. “Textuality, Reality, and the Limits of Knowledge.” The Review of Metaphysics 59(2): 355–377.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005d. “On some Purported Obstacles to Leibniz’s Optimalism.” Studia Leibnitiana 37(2): 131–146.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005e. Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005f. Cognitive Harmony. The Role of Systemic Harmony in the Constitution of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005g. Epistemic Logic. A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2005h. “Credit for Making a Discovery.” Episteme 1(3): 189–200.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2006b. “Optimalism and the Rationality of the Real: On the Prospects of Axiological Explanation.” The Review of Metaphysics 59(3): 503–516. Reprinted in Wippel (2011, 217–230).
Rescher, Nicholas. 2006c. “Pragmatic Idealism and Metaphysical Realism.” in A Companion to Pragmatism, edited by John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis, pp. 386–397. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470997079.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2007a. Interpreting Philosophy. The Elements of Philosophical Hermeneutics. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 17. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2007b. “Default Reasoning.” in Philosophy of Logic, edited by Dale Jacquette, 1st ed., pp. 1163–1172. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 5. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2008a. “Ontology in Cognitive Perspective.” Axiomathes 18(1): 25–36.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2008b. “Fehlschlüsse über Willensfreiheit.” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56(4): 483–494.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2008c. “Trigraphs: A Resource for Illustration in Philosophy.” American Philosophical Quarterly 45(2): 165–178.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2009a. Aporetics. Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2009b. Error (On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2009c. Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2010a. Cognitive Economy. The Economic Dimension of the Theory of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2010b. Philosophical Inquiries. An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2010c. “Worldy Moes: The Troubles with Possible Worlds.” in Possible Worlds. Logic, Semantics and Ontology, edited by Guido Imaguire and Dale Jacquette. Basic Philosophical Concepts. München: Philosophia Verlag, doi:10.2307/j.ctv2nrzj11.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2010d. “The Interpretation of Philosophical Texts.” in Interpretation. Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 91–99. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2010e. “On the Epistemology of Plato’s Divided Line.” Logos & Episteme 1(1): 133–164.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2011. “What Einstein Wanted.” Logos & Episteme 2(2): 233–252.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013a. On Leibniz. 2nd ed. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. First edition: Rescher (2003c).
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013b. Reason and Religion. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013c. Philosophical Deliberations. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013d. On Explaining Existence. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013e. Epistemic Merit. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013f. “Kant’s Neoplatonism: Kant and Plato on Mathematical and Philosophical Method.” Metaphilosophy 44(1–2): 69–78.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2013g. “The Berlin Group and the USA: A Narrative of Personal Interactions.” in The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, edited by Nikolay Milkov and Volker Peckhaus, pp. 33–42. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 273. Dordrecht: Springer.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2014a. Logical Inquiries. EIDE – Foundations of Ontology n. 6. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas, ed. 2014b. Vagaries of Value. Basic Issues in Value Theory. London: Routledge.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2014c. “Induction as a Pragmatic Resource.” in Shifting the Paradigm. Alternative Perspectives on Induction, edited by Paolo C. Biondi and Louis F. Groarke, pp. 437–454. Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis n. 55. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2014d. “The Machinations of Luck.” Metaphilosophy 45(4–5): 620–626. Reprinted in Pritchard and Whittington (2015, 169–176).
Rescher, Nicholas. 2014e. “Non-Existence and Non-Existents.” in Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics, edited by Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák, pp. 299–311. Routledge Studies in Metaphysics n. 8. London: Routledge.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2015a. A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2015b. “Leibniz as a Critic of Spinoza.” Studia Leibnitiana 47(2): 186–204.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017a. “Relevance Attenuation in Textual Scholarship.” American Philosophical Quarterly 54(1): 1–2.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017b. Epistemic Principles. A Primer for the Theory of Knowledge. American University Studies. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017c. “Philosophy as Rational Systematization.” in The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, edited by Giuseppina D’Oro and Søren Overgaard, pp. 32–43. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316344118.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017d. Espionage, Statecraft, and the Theory of Reporting. A Philosophical Essay on Intelligence Management. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017e. “Evaluative Selection in Multimerit Situations.” in Encouraging Openness. Essays for Joseph Agassi on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, edited by Nimrod Bar-Am and Stefano Gattei, pp. 13–18. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science n. 325. Dordrecht: Springer.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2017f. Metaphysical Perspectives. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, doi:10.2307/j.ctvpj76dk.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2018a. Philosophical Pragmatism in Context. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2018b. Humanistic Philosophizing. Sensibility and Speculation in Philosophical Inquiry. Newcastle upon Tye: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2019a. “The Probability Account of Luck.” in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, edited by Ian M. Church and Robert J. Hartman, pp. 136–147. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2019b. “Optimalism in Explaning the Nature of Things.” in Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen, edited by Mirosław Szatkowski, pp. 367–398. Philosophical Analysis n. 81. Berlin: de Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110664812.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2022a. Philosophical Fallacies: Ways of Erring in Philosophical Exposition. London: Palgrave Macmillan, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97174-8.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2022b. Risk Theory: Rational Decision in the Face of Chance, Uncertainty, and Risk. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Berlin: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78502-4.
Rescher, Nicholas. 2022c. Ventures in Philosophical History. London: Anthem Press.
Rescher, Nicholas and Brandom, Robert B. 1980. Logic of Inconsistency: A Study in Nonstandard Possible-World Semantics and Ontology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers.
Rescher, Nicholas and Gallagher, Neil A. 1965. “Venn Diagrams for Plurative Syllogisms.” Philosophical Studies 16(4): 49–55.
Rescher, Nicholas and Nat, Arnold vander. 1973. “On Alternatives in Epistemic Logic.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 2(1): 119–135.
Rescher, Nicholas and Oppenheim, Paul. 1955. “Logical Analysis of Gestalt Concepts.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 6: 89–106.
Rescher, Nicholas and Parks, Zane. 1971. “Restricted Inference.” Logique et Analyse 14(55): 675–683.
Rescher, Nicholas and Seibt, Johanna. 2008. “Process Philosophy.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2008/entries/process-philosophy/.
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Anderson, Alan Ross. 1967. “Comments on Rescher (1967g).” in The Logic of Decision and Action, edited by Nicholas Rescher, pp. 63–70. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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