Nicholaus Rescher

Gebundenes Buch

Free Will

An Extensive Bibliography

Beschreibung

Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature, listing some five thousand items ranging from classical antiquity to the present.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9783110319163
• ISBN-10: 3110319160
• Artikelnr.: 38078781