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Nicholas Rescher

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Nicholas Rescher (born 15 July 1928) is a German-American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. [1]

80 relations: Academia Europaea, Alexander Pruss, Alfred North Whitehead, Alonzo Church, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Catholic Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Association, American Philosophical Quarterly, American philosophy, Analytic philosophy, Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, British idealism, Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy, Carl Gustav Hempel, Center for Philosophy of Science, Charles Sanders Peirce, City University of New York, Classical logic, Contemporary philosophy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Delphi method, Dialectic, Disputation, Distributive justice, Epistemology, Ernest Sosa, Ford Foundation, German idealism, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Guggenheim Fellowship, Hagen, Hillman Library, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Humboldt Prize, Immanuel Kant, Inference engine, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, John A. Leslie, John Kekes, Ledger Wood, List of American philosophers, Logic, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Metaphysical Society of America, Metaphysics, Michel Weber, Michele Marsonet, National Science Foundation, Olaf Helmer, Operator (mathematics), ..., Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Oskar Rescher, Paraconsistent logic, Philosophy, Plato, Pragmatism, Princeton University, Process philosophy, Public Affairs Quarterly, Queens College, City University of New York, RAND Corporation, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Society of Canada, Scientometrics, Semantics, Subjectivity, Temporal logic, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Theory of everything (philosophy), United States, United States Marine Corps, University of Konstanz, University of Marburg, University of Pittsburgh, University of Salamanca, Vagrant predicate, Value theory, Weimar Republic, Western philosophy, Westphalia. Expand index (30 more) »

Academia Europaea

Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, is a European non-governmental scientific association acting as an academy.

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Alexander Pruss

Alexander Robert Pruss (born January 5, 1973) is a Canadian mathematician, philosopher, Professor of Philosophy and the Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

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Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

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Alonzo Church

Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Catholic Philosophical Association

The American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA) is an organization of Catholic philosophers established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an intellectual discipline consonant with Catholic tradition.

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American Philosophical Association

The American Philosophical Association (APA) is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States.

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American Philosophical Quarterly

The American Philosophical Quarterly (APQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering philosophy.

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American philosophy

American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States.

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Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region

The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Berlin/Brandenburg, also Hauptstadtregion Berlin-Brandenburg) is one of eleven metropolitan regions of Germany, consisting of the entire territories of the city-state of Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg.

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British idealism

A species of absolute idealism, British idealism was a philosophical movement that was influential in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

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Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy

The Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy is a prize given to recognise the recipients contribution to International Philosophy.

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Carl Gustav Hempel

Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer and philosopher.

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Center for Philosophy of Science

The Center for Philosophy of Science is an academic center located at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania dedicated to research in the philosophy of science.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce ("purse"; 10 September 1839 – 19 April 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university system in the United States.

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Classical logic

Classical logic (or standard logic) is an intensively studied and widely used class of formal logics.

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Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.

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Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College (full name:The President and Scholars of the College of Corpus Christi in the University of Oxford), is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Delphi method

The Delphi method is a structured communication technique or method, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.

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Dialectic

Dialectic or dialectics (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.

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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.

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Distributive justice

Distributive justice concerns the nature of a social justice allocation of goods.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa (born June 17, 1940) is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology.

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Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.

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German idealism

German idealism (also known as post-Kantian idealism, post-Kantian philosophy, or simply post-Kantianism) was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz (or; Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts".

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Hagen

Hagen is the 41st-largest city in Germany.

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Hillman Library

Hillman Library is the largest library and the center of administration for the University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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History of Philosophy Quarterly

The History of Philosophy Quarterly (HPQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the history of philosophy.

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Humboldt Prize

The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.

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Inference engine

In the field of Artificial Intelligence, inference engine is a component of the system that applies logical rules to the knowledge base to deduce new information.

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) is a scholarly online encyclopedia, dealing with philosophy, philosophical topics, and philosophers.

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John A. Leslie

John Andrew Leslie (born August 2, 1940) is a Canadian philosopher.

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John Kekes

John Kekes (born 22 November 1936) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University at Albany, SUNY.

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Ledger Wood

Ledger Wood (September 4, 1901 – December 7, 1970) was a twentieth-century American philosopher.

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List of American philosophers

This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.

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Logic

Logic (from the logikḗ), originally meaning "the word" or "what is spoken", but coming to mean "thought" or "reason", is a subject concerned with the most general laws of truth, and is now generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of valid inference.

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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (also referred to as LMU or the University of Munich, in German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university located in Munich, Germany.

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Metaphysical Society of America

The Metaphysical Society of America is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950.

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.

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Michel Weber

Michel Weber is a Belgian philosopher, born in Brussels in 1963.

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Michele Marsonet

Michele Marsonet (born 1950) is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Methodology of the Human Sciences, Chairman of the Philosophy Department and Vice-Rector for International Relations of the University of Genoa in Italy.

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National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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Olaf Helmer

Olaf Helmer (June 4, 1910 – April 14, 2011) was a German-American logician and futurologist.

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Operator (mathematics)

In mathematics, an operator is generally a mapping that acts on the elements of a space to produce other elements of the same space.

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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the only federal decoration of Germany.

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Oskar Rescher

Oskar Rescher (October 1, 1884 – March 26, 1972), aka Osman Reşer, was a prolific German-Turkish scholar in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature who specialized in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and Ottoman studies.

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Paraconsistent logic

A paraconsistent logic is a logical system that attempts to deal with contradictions in a discriminating way.

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Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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Plato

Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Process philosophy

Process philosophy — also ontology of becoming, processism, or philosophy of organism — identifies metaphysical reality with change and development.

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Public Affairs Quarterly

Public Affairs Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers current issues in social and political philosophy.

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Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College (QC) is one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system.

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RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation ("Research ANd Development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces.

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists.

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Scientometrics

Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation.

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Semantics

Semantics (from σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.

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Subjectivity

Subjectivity is a central philosophical concept, related to consciousness, agency, personhood, reality, and truth, which has been variously defined by sources.

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Temporal logic

In logic, temporal logic is any system of rules and symbolism for representing, and reasoning about, propositions qualified in terms of time.

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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995; second edition 2005) is a reference work in philosophy edited by Ted Honderich and published by Oxford University Press.

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Theory of everything (philosophy)

In philosophy, a theory of everything or ToE is an ultimate, all-encompassing explanation or description of nature or reality.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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University of Konstanz

The University of Konstanz (Universität Konstanz) is a university in the city of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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University of Marburg

The Philipps University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest Protestant university in the world.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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University of Salamanca

The University of Salamanca (Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the city of Salamanca, west of Madrid, in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Vagrant predicate

Vagrant predicates are logical constructions that exhibit an inherent limit to conceptual knowledge.

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Value theory

Value theory is a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree persons value things; whether the object or subject of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik) is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state during the years 1919 to 1933.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy is the philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen) is a region in northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Rescher

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