Nicholas Rescher (; ; born 15 July 1928) is a

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, and author, who has been a professor of philosophy at the

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since 1961. He is chairman of the

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and was formerly chairman of the philosophy department. Rescher has served as president for the

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, American Metaphysical Society,

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, and

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Society. He is the founder of ''

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'', '' History of Philosophy Quarterly'', and ''

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''.

Early life and education

Nicholas Rescher was born in

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in the

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region of Germany. In his autobiography he traces his descent to Nehemias Rescher (1735-1801), a founder of the Hochberg-Remseck Jewish community in Swabian Germany. He relocated to the United States when he was 10 and obtained a degree in mathematics at

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. Thereafter, he attended

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, graduating with his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1951 at the age of 22, the youngest person to earn a Ph.D. in that department. From 1952 to 1954 during the

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he served a term in the

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, and then from 1954 to 1957 he worked for the

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's mathematics division. After a time at

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, he has taught philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh since 1961. The orientalist

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is the first cousin of his father.

Career

Rescher began his career as an academic at

in 1951. He joined the philosophy department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1961, becoming the first associate director of its new Center for Philosophy of Science the following year. In 1964, he founded the ''American Philosophical Quarterly''. From 1980 to 1981, Rescher served as the chairman of the philosophy department. In July 1988, Rescher changed roles at the Center for Philosophy of Science, resigning as its director and becoming its chairman. In 2010, he donated his philosophy collection to the

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. An honorary member of

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, he has been elected to membership in the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the , among others. Rescher is a prolific writer, with over 100 books and 400 articles, generating the jest that Rescher is not a single person, but a committee sharing the name. Philosopher

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, who has published extensively on Rescher's philosophy, writes that his prolific publication is in itself the most common objection against Rescher, adding "it is, indeed, a leitmotiv of all those unwilling to discuss his ideas". He is known for his system of

pragmatic idealism Neopragmatism, sometimes called post-Deweyan pragmatism, linguistic pragmatism, or analytic pragmatism, is the philosophical tradition that infers that the meaning of words is a result of how they are used, rather than the objects they represent. ...

, which synthesizes British idealism with the

pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. ...

of the U.S.

Philosophy

Rescher's university biography describes his philosophical work thus:

His work envisions a dialectical tension between our synoptic aspirations for useful knowledge and our human limitations as finite inquirers. The elaboration of this project represents a many-sided approach to fundamental philosophical issues that weaves together threads of thought from the philosophy of science, and from continental idealism and American pragmatism.

In the mid and late 1960s, his studies were focused on medieval Arabic logic, but he soon broadened his areas of inquiry in

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

and

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Episte ...

, moving towards the

methodological pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that considers words and thought as tools and instruments for prediction, problem solving, and action, and rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality. ...

he would define. In the 1970s, he began working more extensively with American pragmatism with a focus on the writings of

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, who was to number among his major influences. In 1966, Rescher collaborated with

Herbert A. Simon Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary ...

on a ground-breaking paper on the theory of causality. He has contributed to futuristics, and with

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and , invented the

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of forecasting. A lifelong aficionado of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Rescher has been instrumental in the reconstruction of Leibniz's ''machina deciphratoria'', an ancestor of the famous Enigma cipher machine. Rescher is also responsible for two further items of historical rediscovery and reconstruction: the model of cosmic evolution in Anaximander, and the medieval Islamic theory of modal syllogistic.

Honors

Rescher has been honored for his work. In 1984, he received the

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for Humanistic Scholarship. In 2005, he received the Cardinal Mercier Prize, and in 2007 the American Catholic Philosophical Society's Aquinas Medal. In 2011, his contributions as a German-American to philosophy were recognized with the premier cross of the

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, the Founder's Medal of the American Metaphysical Society (2016), and the Helmholtz Medal of the German Academy of Sciences Berlin-Brandenburg. He holds eight honorary degrees. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford,

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, and

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, he has been awarded fellowships by the

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, Guggenheim, and

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s. In April 2021,

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held a session in his honor where

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asserted:

Rescher's ''A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes'' is a successful framework to reach a broader audience in the field. At first glance it seems an easy book to write. But at least in philosophy, it's easy to write in a complicated style and it's hard to write in a simple, clear, and readable fashion.

The Nicholas Rescher Prize and Medal

In 2010, the University of Pittsburgh created the Dr. Nicholas Rescher Fund for the Advancement of the Department of Philosophy which bestows the Nicholas Rescher Prize for Contributions to Systematic Philosophy. The first recipient of the prize was Rescher's former student,

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. As of 2012, the prize included a gold medal and $25,000, subsequently raised to $30,000. Later awardees have included

Alvin Plantinga Alvin Carl Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 198 ...

Jürgen Mittelstraß Jürgen Mittelstraß (born 11 October 1936 in Düsseldorf) is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science. Career Mittelstraß studied philosophy, history and protestant theology at the universities of Bonn, Erlangen, ...

Hilary Putnam Hilary Whitehall Putnam (; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He made significant contributions ...

Ruth Millikan Ruth Garrett Millikan (born 1933) is a leading American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language. Millikan has spent most of her career at the University of Connecticut, where she is now Professor Emerita of Philosophy. Education and car ...

, and

Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, ...

. When the American Philosophical Association inaugurated its own Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy in 2018, the University of Pittsburgh redesignated its award as the Rescher Medal.

Eponymous concepts

Formal logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premis ...

: Rescher quantifier *

Non-classical logic Non-classical logics (and sometimes alternative logics) are formal systems that differ in a significant way from standard logical systems such as propositional and predicate logic. There are several ways in which this is done, including by way of ...

: Dienes–Rescher

inference engine In the field of artificial intelligence, an inference engine is a component of the system that applies logical rules to the knowledge base to deduce new information. The first inference engines were components of expert systems. The typical expert ...

(also Rescher–Dienes implication); Rescher–Manor consequence relation *

Paraconsistent logic A paraconsistent logic is an attempt at a logical system to deal with contradictions in a discriminating way. Alternatively, paraconsistent logic is the subfield of logic that is concerned with studying and developing "inconsistency-tolerant" syste ...

: Rescher–Brandom

semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy Philosophy (f ...

Temporal logic In logic, temporal logic is any system of rules and symbolism for representing, and reasoning about, propositions qualified in terms of time (for example, "I am ''always'' hungry", "I will ''eventually'' be hungry", or "I will be hungry ''until'' I ...

: Rescher operator *

Scientometrics Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analysing scholarly literature. Scientometrics is a sub-field of informetrics. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academi ...

: Rescher's Law of logarithmic returns *

Distributive justice Distributive justice concerns the socially just allocation of resources. Often contrasted with just process, which is concerned with the administration of law, distributive justice concentrates on outcomes. This subject has been given considera ...

: Rescher's effective average measure *

Dialectics Dialectic ( grc-gre, διαλεκτική, ''dialektikḗ''; related to dialogue; german: Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to ...

: Rescher's theory of formal

disputation In the scholastic system of education of the Middle Ages, disputations (in Latin: ''disputationes'', singular: ''disputatio'') offered a formalized method of debate designed to uncover and establish truths in theology and in sciences. Fixed ru ...

*Theory of luck: Rescher's luck equation

Membership in learned societies

: European Academy of Arts and Sciences *Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences *

*Institut International de Philosophie *Pennsylvania Academy of Science *

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Selected works

For a more complete list of publications (books) from 1960 to 2016, see th
List of piblications by Nicholas Rescher
OUP = Oxford University Press. PUP = Princeton University Press. SUNY Press = State University of New York Press. UPA = University Press of America. UPP = University of Pittsburgh Press. UCP = University of California Press. *1964. ''The Development of Arabic Logic''. UPP. *1966. ''Galen and the Syllogism''. UPP. *1966. ''The Logic of Commands''. Dover Publications, New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. *1967. ''Studies in Arabic Philosophy''. UPP. *1969. ''Introduction to Value Theory''. (Reissued 1982) UPA. *1973. ''The Coherence Theory of Truth''. (Reissued 1982) UPA. *1977. ''Methodological Pragmatism: A Systems-Theoretic Approach to the Theory of Knowledge''. Basil Blackwell; New York University Press. *1978. ''Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science''. UPP *1983. ''Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management''. UPA. *1984. ''The Limits of Science''. (Reissued 1999) UPP. *1985. ''The Strife of Systems: An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical Diversity''. UPP. *1987. '' Ethical Idealism : An Inquiry into the Nature and Function of Ideals.'' UCP *1988. ''Rationality''. OUP. *1989. ''Cognitive Economy: Economic Perspectives in the Theory of Knowledge''. UPP. *1989. ''A Useful Inheritance: Evolutionary Epistemology in Philosophical Perspective''. Rowman & Littlefield. *1990. ''Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology''. Stanford University Press. *1993. ''Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus''. OUP. *1993 "In Matters of Religion," in Kelly James Clark, ed., ''Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers'', pp. 127–136. InterVarsity Press. * ''A System of Pragmatic Idealism'' **1991. ''Volume I: Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective''. PUP. **1992. ''Volume II: The Validity of Values: Human Values in Pragmatic Perspective''. PUP. **1994. ''Volume III: Metaphilosophical Inquiries''. PUP. *1995. ''Luck''. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. *1995. ''Essays in the History of Philosophy''. UK: Aldershot. *1995. ''Process Metaphysics''. SUNY Press. *1996. ''Instructive Journey: An Autobiographical Essay''. UPA. *1997. ''Predicting The Future: An Introduction To The Theory Of Forecasting''. SUNY Press *1998. ''Complexity: A Philosophical Overview''. Transaction Publishers. *1999. ''Kant and the Reach of Reason''. Cambridge University Press. *1999. ''Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy''. SUNY Press. *2000. ''Nature and Understanding: A Study of the Metaphysics of Science''. OUP. *2001. ''Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution''. Open Court Publishing. *2001. ''Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues''. UPP. *2003. ''Epistemology: On the Scope and Limits of Knowledge''. SUNY Press. *2003. ''On Leibniz''. UPP. *2005. ''Epistemic Logic''. UPP. *2005. ''Reason and Reality: Realism and Idealism in Pragmatic Perspective''. Rowman & Littlefield. *2005–2006. ''Collected Papers'' in 10 vols. Ontos. *2006. ''Metaphysics: The Key Issues from a Realist Perspective''. Prometheus Books. *2006. ''Epistemetrics''. Cambridge University Press. *2006. ''Error: On Our Predicament When Things Go Wrong''. UPP. *2007. ''Conditionals''. MIT Press. *2007. ''Dialectics: A Classical Approach to Inquiry''. Ontos. *2009. ''Aporetics''. UPP. *2009. ''Free Will''. Transaction Books. *2009. ''Ignorance: On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge''. UPP. *2009. ''Unknowability''. Lexington Books. *2009. ''Wishful Thinking and Other Philosophical Reflections''. Ontos. *2009. ''Epistemological Studies''. Ontos. *2010. ''Ideas in Process: A Study of the Development of Philosophical Concepts''. Ontos. *2010. ''Studies in Quantitative Philosophy.'' Ontos. *2010. ''Reality and Its Appearance.'' Continuum. *2010. ''A Free Will Bibliography''. Ontos. With Estelle Burris *2010. ''Philosophical Inquiries''. UPP. *2010. ''Infinite Regress''. Transaction Books *2010. ''Axiogenesis: An Essay in Metaphysical Optimalism''. Lexington Books. *2010. ''Philosophical Textuality: Studies on Issues of Discourses in Philosophy''. Ontos. *2010. ''On Rules and Principles: A Philosophical Study of their Nature and Function''. Ontos. *2010. ''Finitude: A Study of Cognitive Limits and Limitations''. Ontos. *2010. ''Beyond Sets: A Venture in Collection-Theoretico Revisionism''. Ontos. With Patrick Grim. *2011. ''On Certainty: And Other Philosophical Essays''. Ontos. *2011. ''Philosophical Explorations''. Ontos. *2011. ''Philosophical Episodes''. Ontos. *2011. ''Productive Evolution''. Ontos. *2012. ''Pragmatism''. Transaction Books. *2012. ''Reflexivity''. (With Patrick Grim) Ontos. *2012. ''On Explaining Existence''. Ontos. *2012. ''Philosophische Vorsellungen''. Ontos. *2012. ''Philosophical Deliberations''. Ontos. *2012. ''On Leibniz''. UPP. econd, revised and expanded edition of the 2003 edition.*2012. ''Epistemic Merit: And Other Essays in Epistemology''. Ontos. *2013. ''On Leibniz: Expanded Edition''. University of Pittsburgh Press. *2013. ''Reason and Religion''. ONTOS. *2014. ''Philosophical Progress, And Other Philosophical Studies''. De Gruyter. *2014. ''The Pragmatic Vision: Themes in Philosophical Pragmatism''. Rowman & Littlefield. *2014. ''Logical Inquiries''. De Gruyter. *2014. ''The Vagaries of Value: Basic Issued in Value Theory''. Transaction. *2014. ''Metaphilosophy''. Lexington Books. *2015. ''A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes''. University of Pittsburgh Press. *2015. ''Ethical Considerations: Basic Issues in Moral Philosophy''. Mellen Press. *2015. ''Cognitive Complications: Epistemology in Pragmatic Perspective''. Lexington Books. *2016. ''Pragmatism in Philosophical Inquiry''. Springer. *2016. ''Concept Audits: A Philosophical Method''. Lexington Books. *2018. ''Leibniz Essays.'' LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. *2018. ''Philosophical Encounters.'' LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. *2018. ''Family Matters.'' LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. *2018. ''Kant Essays.'' LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. *2018. ''A Philosopher's Story: The Autobiography of an American Philosopher.'' LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.

Notes

References

* * * * * * * * * *

Michel Weber Michel Weber (born 1963) is a Belgian philosopher. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international ...

has worked on the meaning and significance of Rescher's process works: Michel Weber (ed.),
After Whitehead: Rescher on Process Metaphysics
', Frankfurt / Paris / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2004
"Rescher on Process"
in Robert Almeder (ed.), ''Rescher Studies. A Collection of Essays on the Philosophical Work of Nicholas Rescher. Presented to Him on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday'', Frankfurt / Lancaster, Ontos Verlag, 2008, 429–444
"Nicholas Rescher, Autobiography, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Supplementary Volume, 2007. Critical review"
''Process Studies'' 37.2, 2008, pp. 211–213. *

External links

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Early life and education

Career

Philosophy

Honors

The Nicholas Rescher Prize and Medal

Eponymous concepts

Membership in learned societies

Selected works

See also

Notes

References

Further reading

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