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On Scientific Representation
This book develops an analysis of the issue of scientific representation (concepts, laws, theories, models, thought experiments) following a revisionist Kantian approach. Scientific concepts, laws, theories, models and…
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Philosophical Essays
The essays in this collection are not confined to any one period or any one subject. Nearly every one, in the author’s words, is “an attempt to understand some short…
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Philosophical Standardism
Philosophical Standardism is ideal for bringing one of the field’s preeminent scholars into the classroom. In this novel empirical treatment of fundamental issues in philosophy, Nicholas Rescher propounds an unorthodox…
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Philosophy in Dialogue
Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: If Plato wanted to present collections of arguments, why…
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Philosophy in Dialogue
Traditional Plato scholarship, in the English-speaking world, has assumed that Platonic dialogues are merely collections of arguments. Inevitably, the question arises: If Plato wanted to present collections of arguments, why…
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Process, Reality, and the Power of Symbols
Following A.N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life and Thought from materialistic approaches which…
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible,…
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Rorty’s Politics of Redescription
Political philosopher Richard Rorty’s influence on contemporary thought has increased in tandem with the controversy his outspoken views have provoked. His rejection of the grand, metaphysical questions of traditional philosophy…
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Rorty’s Politics of Redescription
Political philosopher Richard Rorty’s influence on contemporary thought has increased in tandem with the controversy his outspoken views have provoked. His rejection of the grand, metaphysical questions of traditional philosophy…
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Science Reason Rhetoric
This volume marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays…
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