BOOKS ABOUT RESCHER’S PHILOSOPHY

1. Ernest Sosa (ed.), The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher (Dordrecht,1979). [A collection of critical essays with brief replies by N.R. [The contributors include: Annette Baier, Stephen Barker, Nuel D. Belnap, Jr., Laurence BonJour, Robert E. Butts, Roderick M. Chisholm, L. Jonathan Cohen, Jude J. Dougherty, Brian Ellis, R.M. Hare, Hide Ishiguro, George Von Wright, and John W. Yolton.]

2. Heinrich Coomann, Die Kohaerenztheorie der Wahrheit: Eine kritische Darstellung der Theorie Reschers von Ihrem historischen Hintergrund (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 1983).

3. Andrea Bottani, Verità e Coerenza: Suggio su’ll epistemologia coerentista di Nicholas Rescher, (Milano: Franco Angeli Liberi, 1989). [A systematic study of NR’s coherence theory of truth.]

4. Robert Almeder (ed.), Praxis and Reason: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982.) [A collection of critical and expanding essays with brief replies by NR. The contributors include: Timo Airaksinen, Robert Almeder, Antonio Cua, John E. Hare, Risto Hilpinen, John Kekes, Gerald J. Massey, Jack W. Meiland, Mark Pastin, Friedrick Rapp, James Sterba, and Dennis Temple.]

5. Michele Marsonet, The Primacy of Practical Reason: An Essay on Nicholas Rescher’s Philosophy (Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1995).

6. A. Wüstehube and M. Quante (ed’s.), Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays on Nicholas Rescher’s System of Pragmatic Idealism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998). [Contributions by eighteen contemporary philosophers in Europe and the USA.)

7. Martin Carrier et. al (eds.), Science at the Century’s End: Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science (Pittsburgh and Konstanz: University of Pittsburgh Press and University of Konstanz Press, 2000). [Pp. 40-134 contains a symposium devoted to NR’s work on the Limits of Science with contributions by Robert Almeder, Laura Ruetsche, Juergen Mittelstrass, and Martin Carrier.]

8. Lotfallah Nabavi Avicennan Logic Based on Nicholas Rescher’s Point of View (Tehran: Sceintific and Cultural Publication Co., 2003).

9. Michel Weber (ed.), After Whitehead: Rescher and Process Philosophy: Critiques and Replies (Frankfurt: ONTOS Verlag, 2004).

10. Paul D. Murray, Reason, Truth and Theology in Pragmatic Perspective (Leuven: Peeters, 2004). [A theological study largely devoted to NR’s ideas.]

11. Nicholas J. Moutafakis, Rescher on Rationality, Values, and Social Responsibility (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007).

DISSERTATIONS AND SYMPOSIA ABOUT RESCHER’S WORK

1. Dennis M. Temple, A Study of Nicholas Rescher’s Theory of Natural Law. St. Louis, MO (Ph.D. Dissertation at Washington University), 1979.

2. Heinrich Coomann, Die Kohaerenztheorie der Wahrheit (Düsseldorf,1979). (A doctoral dissertation at the University of Düsseldorf centering on NR’s The Coherence Theory of Truth.)

3. Andrea Bottani, Aspetti fondamentali della teoria coerentista della verita in Nicholas Rescher. Genova, 1982. (A doctoral dissertation at the University of Genoa, centering on NR’s theory of truth.)

4. “On Nicholas Rescher’s Work on Argumentation.” A special issue of Informal Logic, vol. 14 (1992) No. 1, pp. 1-58. [Critical discussions of NR’s work by Bryson Brown, David Goodman, Harvey Siegel, and Douglas Walton, with responses by NR.]

5. “Book Symposium” on Nicholas Rescher’s trilogy, A System of Pragmatic Idealism. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 54 (1994), June issue. [Critical discussions of NR’s “Pragmatic Idealism” triology by Cornelius Delaney, Jack Meiland, Timothy Sprigge, John Kekes, Terrance McConnell, Joseph Margolis, and Johanna Seibt.]

6. “Symposium on Nicholas Rescher’s Pluralism,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol. 42 (1994). pp. 291-334. [Critical discussion of NR’s Pluralism by Hans-Peter Krüger, Lothar Schäfer, Logi Gunnasson, and Axel Wüstehube.]

7. Timo Airaksinen, “Methodological Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Epistemology of Nicholas Rescher” in Pragmatik: Handbuch Pragmatischen Denkens ed. by Herbert Stachowiak, Vol. V. (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1995), pp. 179-95.

8. Wenceslao J. González, “Racionalidad científica y actividad humana Ciencia y valores en la Filosofía de N. Rescher” the introduction to NR’s Razón y valores en la Era científico-technológica. (Bacelona: Editorial Paidós, 1999), pp. 11-44.

9. Paul Damian Murray, Reason, Truth and Theology in Pragmatist Perspective, R. Rorty, N. Rescher, and D. MacKinnin. (Ph.D. Dissertation at the University of Cambridge), 2002.

10. ‘Symposium on Nicholas Rescher’s Pragmatism, Contemporary Pragmatism, vol. 2 (2005), pp. 1-61. [With contributions by . . . Michele Marsonet, Cheryl Misah . . . ..]

BOOK CHAPTERS DEALING WITH RESCHER’S WORK

1. H. Koningsveld, Empirical Laws, Regularity and Necessity (Wageningen [Holland], 1973). See “Rescher’s View of Natural Necessity” on pp. 83-86 regarding NR’s theory of natural laws.]

2. Nicholas Moutafakis, Imperatives and their Logic (New Delhi, 1975). [Chap. 4 deals with NR’s theory of imperatives.]

3. Lorenz Bruno Puntel, Wahrheitstheorien in der neueren Philosophie (Darmstadt, 1978). [Chap. 5 “Kohaerenztheorie der Wahrheit” (pp. 172-204) is devoted to NR’s theory of truth.]

4. Jean Louis Garidies, Logica del tiempo (Madrid, 1979). [Chap. IV discusses NR’s theory of chronological logic.]

5. Contemporary Philosophy, Vol. 4, ed. by G. Flosted (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1983), pp. 375-382 discuss NR’s methodological pragmatism.

6. Lorenz B. Puntel, “Einführung in Nicholas Rescher’s pragmatische Systemphilosophie” in Einleitung to Nicholas Rescher, Die Grenzen der Wissenschaft (Stattgart: Reclam, 1985), pp. 7-47.

7. Nicholas J. Moutafakis, The Logic of Preference (Dordrecht, 1987). [See Chap. 3 regarding “Rescher’s Logic of Preference and Linguistic Analyses.”]

8. Robert P. Amico, The Problem of the Criterion (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993). [Chapter 3 (pp. 61-72) deals with “Nicholas Rescher’s Systems-theoretic Approach.”]

9. Francesca D’Agostini, Analitici e continentali (Roma: Raffaelo Cortina Editore, 1994). [Section 24 (pp. 267-73) is devoted to “Rorty, Rescher, and Pragmatic Idealism.”]

10. Axel Wüstehube, “Rationalität und Moralität bei Nicholas Rescher” in idem (ed.) Pragmatische Rationalitätstheorien (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1995).

11. C. A. Hooker, “Regulatory Systems and Pragmatism: A Critical Study of Rescher’s Evolutionary Epistemology,” Chap. 4 of Reason Regulation and Realism (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), pp. 177-224.

12. Michele Marsonet, “Ontology and Apriorism,” (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995). [Pp. 80-111 deal with NR’s theory of knowledge.]

13. Timo Airakisinen, “Methodological Pragmatism: The Pragmatic Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher” in Pragmatik: Hadnbuch des Pragmatischen Denkens, ed. by Herbert Stachowiak, Vol. V (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1995), pp. 179-95.

14. Andrès Bobenrieth, Inconsistenceas: Por Què no? Bogota: Colcullura, 1996. [For NR’s views on nonstandard logic see pp. 245-50 and 378-86.]

15. Geo Siegwart, Vorfragen zur Wahrheit (Olderbourg, Scientia Nova, 1997). Chapter 39 (“Fallstudie: Die Kohärenzkonzeption”) deals with N.R.’s coherence theory of truth.

16. Axel Wüstehube, Rationalität und Hermeneutik (Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 1998). [Chapters 2-4 deal extensively with NR’s theory of rationality.]

17. Dirk Martin Grube, Unbegründbarkeit Gottes? (Marburg: N. G. Elwert Verlag, 1998). [Section 3 of Chapter C/I (pp. 191-99) discusses “Kohärentismus und Realismus: Zu Rescher’s Kohärentismus.”]

18. Jan Dejnozka, Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999). [Chapter 5, “Rescher’s Case Against Russell” gives a critical discussion of a paper by NR.]

19. Susanne Bracker, Kohärenz und juristische Interpretation (Baden, Nomos Verlag, 2000). [Section III of Chapter I/A (pp. 53-75) is devoted to a discussion of “Nicholas Rescher’s Kohärenztheorie der Wahrheit.”]

20. Finngeir Hiorth, Los Valores (Lima: Ediciones de RPFA, 2000). [Chapter 6 on contemporary value theorists deals with NR’s work.]

21. Bernhard Irrgang, Lehrbuch der evolutionärea Erkenntnistheorie (2te Auglage, München und Basel: Ernst Reinhard Verlag, 2001). [Pp. 203-212 deal with NR’s workings on evolutionary epistemology.]

22. Christoph Lütge, Oekononische Wissenschaftstheorie (Wurzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001). [Takes extensive account of NR’s work in the economies of knowledge. See especially sections 1.2.6.3; 2.2.1.3; and 3.2.1.5.]

23. Michel Weber, Whitehead’s Pancreativism (Frankfurt: ONTOS Verlag, 2006). [Pp. 13-21 deal with “Nicholas Rescher and the History of Process Thought.”]

ACCOUNTS IN ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCE WORKS

Diccionario de filosofía, ed. J. Ferrater-Mora (6th. ed., Buenos Aires, 1980, pp. 2848-49; 9th ed., Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1994, pp. 3077-78).

Dizionario dei Filosofi del Novecento (Roma: Leo S. Olshkin Editore, 1985), p. 625.

Pragmatik: Handbuch pragmatischen Denkens (Hamburg: F. Meiner). [See Vol. II (1987), pp. 272-74 and 406-07; Vol. III (1989), pp. 473-76; and Vol. V (1995), pp. 179-94.]

Philosophie der Gegenwart, ed. by J. Nida-Rümelin (Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1991), pp. 495-99. (Art by Dieter Sturma.)

A Companion to Epistemology, ed. by J. Dancy and E. Sosa (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), pp. 448-49. (Art. by Robert Almeder.)

Enzyklopädie Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie ed. by Jürgen Mittlestrass (Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 1995), pp. 594-97.

Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp. 771. (Art. by John Kekes.)

A Dictionary of Philosophy ed. by Thomas Mautner (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 336.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1996). (Art. by Ernest Sosa.)

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Philosophers, ed. by S. Brown et. al. (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).

A Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, ed. by William L. Reese, 2nd ed. (Atlantic Highland, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996).

Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. by T. Mautner (London: Penguin Books, 1997).

Brockhaus: Die Enzyklopädie, Vol. 18 [F.A. Brockhaus: Leipzig-Meisenheim, 1998), p. 290.

World Philosophers and Their Works John. K. Roth (ed.) (Passadina, CA: Salem Press, 2000), pp. 1627-33. (Art by Richard A. Springer Hall).

Lexicon of Philosophers. www.philosophenlexicon.de

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition (New York: Macmillen, 2006).

ACCOUNTS IN EXPOSITORY BOOKS AND SURVEYS

Puntel, Lorenz Bruno, Wahrheitstheorien in der neureren Philosophie (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung, 1978. [Chap. 5, “Kohärenztheorie der Wahrheit,” is devoted to NR’s position.]

Hudson, W.D., A Century of Moral Philosophy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980). [See “Utilitarianism and Vicarious Affects,” 174-77.]

March, Johann Christian, Interntionalität und Kausalität (Graz: Universitätsverlag, 1975). [See “N. Rescher über Adäquate Handlungsbeschribungen,” pp. 30-35]

Axel Wüstehube, “Nicholas Rescher’s Philosophische Position,” Information Philosophie, 1993(2) (May 1993), pp. 34-36. [A general survey of NR’s views.]

W.D. Hudson, A Century of Moral Philosophy (New York, 1980). [Pp. 174-77 discusses NR’s theory of the vicarious affects.]

Philosophers on Their Own Work, ed. by A. Mercier and M. Svilar, Vol. 9 (Bern: Verlag Peter Lang, 1983). Contains a synoptic account of NR’s work under the title “Nicholas Rescher: Curriculum operis.”

Peter Skagestad, “American Pragmatism” in G. Floistad (ed.) Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 4 (The Hague, Boston, London, 1983), pp. 363-386. [See pp. 375-379 for an account of NR’s pragmatic position.]

Wesley C. Salmon, Four Decades of Scientific Explanation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989). [For discussion of NR’s contributions to the theory of scientific explanation see pp. 89-94, as well as the Index on p. 231.]

Axel Wüstehube, “Ist systematisches Philosophieren heute noch möglich? Zu Nicholas Rescher’s A System of Pragmatic Idealism.” Philosophische Rundschau, vol. 42 (1995).

Roger Trigg, Rationality and Science (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). [Pp. 35-45, 126-29, and 177-80 discuss NR’s philosophy of science.]

John Losee, Theories of Scientific Progress (New York and London: Routledge, 2004). [See pp. 105-12 regarding NR’s views on scientific progress.

Wulf Kellerwessel, “Zu Nicholas Rescher: Idealism, Pragmatism, und Analytische Philosophie,” Philosophischen Literaturenzeiger, vol. 58 (2005), pp. 385-414.

INTERVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS

Axel Wüstehube, “Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Ein Gespräch mit Nicholas Rescher,” Information Philosophie, vol. 2 (May, 1993), No. 2, pp. 30-36.

Hans-Peter Krüger, “Pragmatischer Idealismus oder idealistischer Pragmatismus?: Interview mit Nicholas Rescher,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, vol 42 (1994), pp. 883-904.

Axel Wüstehube, “Der Rationalitätsbegriff im ‘Pragmatischen Idealismus: Ein Gespräch mit Nicholas Rescher,” in Axel Wüstehube (ed.), Pragmatische Rationalitäts-theorien (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1995), pp. 147-164.

Axel Wüstehube, “Nicholas Rescher: Seine Position Dargestellt,” Information Philosophie, No. 2 for 1998, pp. 34-39.

Charles Hobbes: “Interview With Nicholas Rescher,” Kinesis, vol. __ (2005), pp. ___.

Developments, Critiques, and Extensions of Rescher’s Theses or Theories

1. Edward H. Madden, “Science, Philosophy, and Gestalt Theory,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 20 (1953), pp. 329-331.

2. Herbert Simon, “Further Remarks on the Causal Relation,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 52 (1955), pp. 20-21.

3. Keith Gunderson and Richard Routley, “Mr. Rescher’s Formulation of The Ontological Proof,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 38 (1960), pp. 246-252.

4. N. L. Wilson, “Reply to Professor Rescher on Identity, Substitution and Modality,” Review of Metaphysics, vol. 14 (1961), pp. 714-20.

5. A. R. Anderson, “Reply to Mr. Rescher,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 13 (1962), pp. 6-8.

6. Seymour Feldman, “Rescher on Arabic Logic,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 61 (1964), pp. 724-734.

7. Lewis White Beck, “Comments on Rescher on Evaluative Metaphysics,” in W. H. Capitan and D.D. Merrill (eds.), Metaphysics and Explanation (Pittsburgh, n.d. [1966]), pp. 73-75.

8. Thomas H. Patton, “Comments on Rescher on Evaluative Metaphysics,” in W.H. Capitan and D.D. Merrill (eds.), Metaphysics and Explanation (Pittsburgh, n.d. [1966]), pp. 76-78.

9. David Kaplan, “Rescher’s Plurality Quantification,” The Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 31 (1966), Pp. 153-155.

10. Ernest Sosa, “Hypothetical Reasoning,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 64 (1967), pp. 293-305. [Discusses NR’s book of this title.]

11. Edward I.J. Poznanski, “A New Solution of the Problem of Counterfactual Conditionals (On Nicholas Rescher’s ‘Hypothetical Reasoning’)” lyyun, vol. 18 (1967), pp. 193-203 (Hebrew); English summary pp. 256-255 in reverse pagination.

12. Herbert Buerry, “Rescher’s Master Argument,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 64 (1967), pp. 310-312.

13. Jerzy Gledymin, “Confirmation, Counterfactuals, and Projectability,” in R. Klibansky (ed.), Philosophy of Science, Firenze (1968), pp. 70-87. [See pp. 73-75 regarding NR’s views on counterfactuals.]

14. Gerard Deledale, “La Logique Arabe et ses Sources non-Aristotelloiennes: Remarques sur le Petit Commentaire d’Al-Farabi,” Les Etudes Philosophiques, vol. 24 (1969), pp. 299-319. [Discusses NR’s treatment of this text.]

15. Bengt Hannson, “An Analysis of Some Deontic Logics,” Nous, vol. 3 (1969), pp. 373-398. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 386-89 and 393-4.1.

16. Ramona Cormier, “History, the Sciences, and Uniqueness,” Tulane Studies in Philosophy, vol. 18 (1969), pp. 1-6.

17. Dieter Turck, “Eine neue Darstellung der Leibnizschen Philosophie: Zu ‘The Philosophy of Leibniz’ von Nicholas Rescher,” Studia Leibnitiana, vol. 1 (1969), pp. 61-72.

18. Wolfgang Stegmueller, Wissenschaftliche Erklaerung und Begruendung, vol. 1 (Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, 1969). [See pp. 208-237 for NR’s views on laws and explanation.]

19. Fred Feldman, “Leibniz and Leibniz’ Law,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 79 (1970), pp. 510-522. [For discussion of NR’s views see especially pp 512-15 and 517-20.]

20. Lawrence H. Powers, “A More Effective Average: A Note on Distributive Justice,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 24 (1970), pp. 74-78. [Discusses NR’s views on distributive justice.]

21. James F. Childress, “Who Shall Live When Not All Can Live?” Soundings 53 (Winter 1970): 339-355. [Discusses NR’s views on medical ethics.]

22. Hector Castaneda, “Nicholas Rescher’s Logic of Commands,” The Philosophical Review, vol. 79 (1970), pp. 439-446.

23. Leo Apostel, “Assertion Logic and Theory of Argumentation,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 4 (1971), pp. 92-110.

24. Hubert Hubien, “On Two of Professor Rescher’s Modal Theses,” Logique et Analyse, vol. 14 (197l), pp. 669-674.

25. A.W. Sparkes, “Professor Rescher’s Translation-Tests,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 50 (1972), pp. 190-191.

26. Martin Ringbom, “Rescher’s Determination of a Social Preference Ranking,” Theory and Decision, vol. 3 (1972), pp. 170-174.

27. Juhani Pletarinen, Lawlikeness, Analogy, and Inductive Logic (Amsterdam, 1972; Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 26). [Section 8.2, “The Necessity View of Lawlikeness,” pp. 118-126 deals with NR’s theory of natural laws.]

28. Hide¢ Ishiguro, “Leibniz’s Theory of the Ideality of Relations” in H.G. Frankfurt (ed.), Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York, 1972, pp. 191-213.)

29. Gerald Massey, “The Modal Structure of the Prior-Rescher Family of Infinite Product Systems,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 13 (1972), pp. 219-222.

30. Daniel Gerber, “Metrizing Social Preferences,” Theory and Decision, vol. 3 (1972), pp. 41-48.

31. Tobias Chapman, “Note on Rescher’s Formalisation of Aristotelian Indeterminism” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 13 (1972), pp. 573-575.

32. Diderik Batens, “Nicholas Rescher’s Coherence Theory of Truth,” Logique et Analyse, vol. 16 (1973), pp. 393-411.

33. James B. Freeman, “Fairness and the Value of Disjunctive Actions,” Philosophical Studies, vol 24 (1973), pp. 105-111.

34. Dirk Van Dalen, “Variants of Rescher’s Semantics for Preference Logic and Some Completeness Theorems,” Studia Logica, vol. 33 (1974), pp. 163-181.

35. Paul Gochet, “Le Probleme du Commencement et la Philosophie Analytique,” Dialectica, vol. 28 (1974), pp. 69-86. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 85-86.]

36. Mark Pastin, “Foundationalism Redux,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 71 (1974), pp. 709-710.

37. Warren S. Quinn, “Theories of Intrinsic Value,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 11 (1974), pp. 123-132. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 125-127.]

38. Geoffrey Ross, “Utilities for Distributive Justice: The Meshing Problem and Solutions to it,” Theory and Decision, vol. 4 (1974), pp. 239-258. [Proposes some extensions of NR’s theory of distributive justice; see especially pp. 250-257.]

39. Joseph Pitt, “Comments of Rescher’s ‘Normal Causality’,” Kant Studien, vol. 65 (1979), pp. 78-88.

40. Friedrich Rapp, “Logische Analyse une Idealistisches Systemdenken in Rescher’s Koharenztheorie der Warheit,” Zeitschrift fur Algemeine Wissenschaft Theorie, vol. 5 (1975), pp. 385-389.

41. Robert Young, “Some Criteria for Making Decisions Concerning the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources,” Theory and Decision, vol. 6 (1975), pp. 439-455. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 441-452.]

42. Johann Christian Markek, Intensionalitaet und Kausalitaet (Graz, 1975). [Chap. III, “Ueber adaequate Handlungsbeschreibungen: N. Rescher” (pp. 30-35) deals with NR’s views on action descriptions.]

43. Lee W. Werth, “Some Second Thoughts on First Principles,” Philosophical Context, vol. 4 (1975), pp. 78-88.

44. Alfred F. Mackey, “Interpersonal Comparisons,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 72 (1975), pp. 535-549.

45. Peter M. Simons, “Rescher on Nomic Necessity,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 28 (1975), pp. 227-228.

46. Hubert Hubien, “John Buridan on the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol. 29 (1975), pp. 271-285. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 271-72.]

47. Ian Hacking, “A Leibnizian Space,” Dialogue, vol. 14 (1975), pp. 89-100. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 91-92.]

48. George Englebretsen, “Rescher on ‘E’” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 16 (1975), pp. 536-538.

49. Lars O. Ericsson, Justice in the Distribution of Economic Resources (Stockholm, 1976). [Section 3.6, pp. 53-57 deals

with NR’s theory of distributive justice.]

50. George E. Brenkert, “On Welfare and Rescher,” Personalist, vol. 57 (1976), pp. 299-307.

51. John Hooker, “Rescher and Parks on Trans-World Identity,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 29 (1976), pp. 429-431.

52. Jean Francois Malherbe, “Des enonces protocolaires aux decisions epistemique: Un chapitre d’histoire recent de l’epistemologie Anglo-Saxonne,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, vol. 74 (1976), pp. 594-622. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 616-621.]

53. Laurence BonJour, “Rescher’s Idealistic Pragmatism,” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 29 (1976), pp. 702-726.

54. John W. Yolton, “Pragmatism Revisited: An Examination of Professor Rescher’s Conceptual Idealism,” Idealistic Studies, vol. 6 (1976), pp. 218-238.

55. Richard Routley and Robert K. Meyer, “Dialectical Logic, Classical Logic, and the Consistency of the World,” Studies in Soviet Thought, vol. 16 (1976), pp. 1-25.

56. Mario H. Otero, “Verdad y Practica: El aporte de Nicholas Rescher,” Dianoia: Annuario de Filosofia, 1976 (Mexico City, 1976), pp. 127-141.

57. John Sutula, “Diodorus and the ‘Master Argument’,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, vol. 14 (1976), pp. 323-344.

58. Anthony Willing, “A Note on Rescher’s ‘Semantic Foundations for the Logic of Preference’,” Theory and Decision, vol. 7 (1976), pp. 221-229.

59. O. Ericsson Lars, Justice in the Distribution of Economic Resources (Stockholm 1976); Stockholm Studies in Philosophy, vol. 66. [Pp. 71-73 discuss NR’s theory of preference; 142-143 his theory of distributive justice.]

60. J.E. Wiredu, “On Reductio ad Absurdum Proofs,” International Logic Review, vol. 7 (1976), pp. 90-101.

61. Frederick S. Michael, “What is the Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus?”, American Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 13 (1976), pp. 229-235. [For discussion of NR’s work see especially pp. 231-233.]

62. H.S. Thayer, “On N. Rescher’s The Primacy of Practice.” Philosophia (Israel), vol. 6 (1976), pp. 507-513.

63. Author??, “Verdad Y Practica: El aporte del Nicholas Rescher,” Dianoia: Anuario de Filosofia 1976 (Mexico City, 1976; Annual publication of the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico), pp. 127-141.)

64. R.G. Frey, “The Vicarious Case for Unselfishness,” a study of Unselfishness: The Role of the Vicarious Affects in Moral Philosophy and Social Theory (1975), Philosophical Books, vol. 18 (1977), pp. 1-6.

65. Joseph L. Esposito, Schelling’s Idealism and Philosophy of Nature (Lewisburg, 1977). [Pp. 220-225 of the chapter “Idealism in Recent Times” discuss NR’s theory of conceptual idealism.]

66. Justus Hartnack, “Language and its Object,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 38 (1977), pp. 239-246. [Contains a discussion of the Kantian aspects of NR’s conceptual idealism.]

67. Gunnar Skirbekk, “Einleitung” in Idem (ed.) Wahrheitstheorien (Frankfurt, 1977), pp. 8-34. [Discusses NR’s treatment of the coherence theory of truth.]

68. Ota Weinberger, “Der nomische Allsatz,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 6 (1977), pp. 31-41. [A critical discussion of NR’s theory of lawfulness.]

69. R. Robert Basham, “On Singular Attributions of Existence,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 31 (1977), pp. 411-42. [See pp. 414-417 for a discussion of NR’s views.]

70. Dirk van Dalen, “Variants of Rescher’s Semantics for Preference Logic, Studia Logica, vol, 33 (1977), pp. 163-81.

71. Dennis Temple, “Nomic Necessity and Counterfactual Force,” American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 15 (1978), pp. 221-228. [Discusses NR’s theory of natural laws.]

72. John A. Weymark, “Unselfishness and the Prisoner’s Dilemma,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 34 (1978), pp. 417-425. [A critique of one argument in NR’s Unselfishness.]

73. William H. Friedman, “Uncertainties Over Distribution Dispelled,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 19 (1978), pp. 653-662.

74. Claudio Pizzi, “Introduzzione” in idem (ed.) Leggi di nature, modalita, Ipolesi: La logica del ragionamento controfattuale (Milano, 1978), pp. 11-92 (see pp. 31-34 and 88-89).

75. L. Jonathan Cohen, “The Coherence Theory of Truth,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 34 (1978), pp. 351-360. [Contains a critical discussion of NR’s views of coherence.]

76. R.K. Sikora, “Foundations without Certainty,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 8 (1978), pp. 227-245.

77. Susan Haack, Philosophy of Logics (Cambridge, 1978). [See pp. 88-91, 96-97, and p. 274 (index) for discussions of NR’s views in logical issues.]

78. Timo Airaksinen, “On the Foundations of Rescher’s Coherence Theory of Truth,” Logique et Analyse, vol. 2 (1979), pp. 147-157.

79. Johenn Christian March, Intentionalitaet und Kausalitaet (Graz, 1979). [Pp. 29-35 deal with NR’s theory of act descriptions.]

80. Nicholas Moutafakis, “The Mathematical Foundations of Rescher’s Logic of Preference,” Abstracts of the Sixth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Hannover, 22-29, August, 1979), vol. 5 (Sections 10-11), pp. 169-173.

81. Albert W. Wald, “Meaning, Experience, and the Ontological Argument,” Religious Studies, vol. 15 (1979), pp. 31-39. [A critical discussion of NR’s 1955 paper on the ontological argument in The Australian Journal of Philosophy.]

82. John Collier, “Information Content as a Measure of Epistemic Utility,” Methodology and Science, vol. 12 (1979), pp. 205-212.

83. William Lycan, “The Trouble with Possible Worlds” in M.J. Loux (ed.), The Possible and the Actual (Ithaca, 1979), pp. 274-316.