Nicholas Rescher

Gebundenes Buch

Studies in Philosophical Inquiry

Beschreibung

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

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

• Collected Papers Volume 4
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9783110325379
• ISBN-10: 3110325373
• Artikelnr.: 38077573