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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. In November 2007 Nicholas Rescher was awarded by the American Catholic Philosophical Association with the „Aquinas Medal“

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.

Volume 1
STUDIES IN 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
ISBN 3-937202-78-1

A set of studies of various movements and developments in 20th century philosophy in which Nicholas Rescher was involved as a participant.

Volume 2
STUDIES IN PRAGMATISM
ISBN 3-937202-79-X

A set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in traditional pragmatism and are important for the idealistic pragmatism Nicholas Rescher long was engaged in developing.

Volume 3
STUDIES IN IDEALISM
ISBN 3-937202-80-3

A set of studies of various ideas and theories that play a key role in contemporary idealism and are important for the pragmatic idealism that Nicholas Rescher long was developing.

Volume 4
STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
ISBN 3-937202-81-1

A set of studies of various central problems in contemporary philosophy--particularly issues relating to the theory of knowledge and to philosophical inquiry itself (metaphilosophy).

Volume 5
Studies in Cognitive Finitude
ISBN 3-938793-00-7

Volume 6
Studies in Social Philosophy
ISBN 3-938793-01-5

Volume 7
Studies in Philosophical Anthropology
ISBN 3-938793-02-3

Volume 8
Studies in Value Theory
ISBN 3-938793-03-1

Volume 9
Studies in Metaphilosophy
ISBN 3-938793-04-X

Volume 10
Studies in the History of Logic
ISBN 3-938793-19-8

Volume 11

Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ISBN 3-938793-20-1

Volume 12

Studies in Metaphysical Optimalism

ISBN 3-938793-21-X

Volume 13

Studies in Leibniz's Cosmology

ISBN 3-938793-22-8

Volume 14

Studies in Epistemology

ISBN 3-938793-23-6

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