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Nicholas Rescher

University of Pittsburgh
United States

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Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 56 Citations 12,822 491 World Ranking 1155 National Ranking 571

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

1970 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

Epistemology
Law
Metaphysics

Nicholas Rescher focuses on Epistemology, Scientific progress, Pragmatism, Philosophical logic and Philosophy of logic. His Epistemology study frequently links to related topics such as Idealization. His Scientific progress research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Realism, Philosophical realism, Environmental ethics, Social system and Philosophy of science.

Nicholas Rescher has researched Pragmatism in several fields, including Context, Monism, Fallacy, Reductio ad absurdum and Coherence theory of truth. His Philosophical logic research focuses on Law of excluded middle and how it relates to Proposition. The various areas that Nicholas Rescher examines in his Philosophy of logic study include Many-valued logic, Computational logic and Action.

His most cited work include:

Many Valued Logic (628 citations)
On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences (393 citations)
The Logic of Decision and Action (324 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Nicholas Rescher spends much of his time researching Epistemology, Philosophy of science, Metaphysics, Pragmatism and Cognitive science. Epistemology is closely attributed to Perspective in his study. Nicholas Rescher studies Metaphysics, focusing on Philosophy of language in particular.

His Modern philosophy study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Western philosophy.

He most often published in these fields:

Epistemology (54.17%)
Philosophy of science (6.86%)
Metaphysics (6.68%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2007-2020)?

Epistemology (54.17%)
Pragmatism (6.31%)
Philosophical methodology (3.90%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Nicholas Rescher mostly deals with Epistemology, Pragmatism, Philosophical methodology, Metaphysics and Philosophy of science. In most of his Epistemology studies, his work intersects topics such as Perspective. His research on Pragmatism often connects related topics like Pragmatics.

Nicholas Rescher has included themes like Western philosophy, Philosophy of sport and Philosophy education in his Philosophical methodology study. As part of his studies on Free will, Nicholas Rescher often connects relevant areas like Doctrine.

Between 2007 and 2020, his most popular works were:

Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal (55 citations)
The Development of Arabic Logic. (49 citations)
Introduction to Logic (46 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

Epistemology
Law
Metaphysics

His primary areas of investigation include Epistemology, Philosophical methodology, Ignorance, Philosophy of science and Free will. His Deliberation research extends to the thematically linked field of Epistemology. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Anthropology, Pragmatism, Western philosophy, Philosophy of language and Philosophy education.

His studies deal with areas such as Illusion, Randomness and Boundary as well as Ignorance. His Philosophy of science research integrates issues from Inference and Mode. His study in Free will is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Nature versus nurture, Philosophy of religion, Philosophical progress and Doctrine.

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Best Publications

Many Valued Logic

Nicholas Rescher.
(1969)

973 Citations

On the Epistemology of the Inexact Sciences

Olaf Helmer;Nicholas Rescher.
Management Science (1959)

602 Citations

The Logic of Decision and Action

Nicholas Rescher;Alan Ross Anderson.
(1967)

503 Citations

The logic of inconsistency

Nicholas Rescher;Robert Brandom.
(1979)

475 Citations

Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge

Nicholas Rescher.
(1977)

408 Citations

The coherence theory of truth

Nicholas Rescher.
(1973)

405 Citations

On inference from inconsistent premisses

Nicholas Rescher;Ruth Manor.
Theory and Decision (1970)

396 Citations

Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy

Nicholas Rescher.
(1996)

388 Citations

The Logic of Preference

Nicholas Rescher.
(1968)

367 Citations

Introduction to Value Theory