CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BOOKS BY NICHOLAS RESCHER
1960
On the Epistemology of the Inexact
Sciences. Santa Monica, CA
(RAND Corporation) 1960; RAND Research Monograph R353. Co-authored with Olaf Helmer.
1962
Al-Farabi: An Annotated
Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1962.
1963
Al-Farabi’s
Short Commentary on Aristotle’s “Prior Analytics.”
Translated from the Arabic, with Introduction and Notes. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1963.
Studies in the History of Arabic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1963.
1964
Al-Kindi: An Annotated
Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1964.
The Development of Arabic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1964.
Hypothetical Reasoning.
Amsterdam (North-Holland Publishing Co.; “Studies in Logic”
series edited by L.E.J. Brouwer,
E.W. Beth and A. Heyting.), 1964.
An Introduction to Logic.
New York (St. Martin’s Press), 1964.
1965
The Refutation by Alexander of Aphrodisias
of Galen’s Treatise on The First
Mover. Karachi (Publications of the Central Institute of Islamic Research), 1965.
Co-authored with Michael E. Marmura.
1966
Distributive Justice. New
York (Bobbs Merrill
Company), 1966. Reissued in 1982 by the University Press of America
(Washington, D.C.).
Galen and the Syllogism: An Examination of the Claim that
Galen Originated the Fourt Figure of the
Syllogism. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press), 1966.
The Logic of Commands. London (Routledge & Kegan Paul), 1966.
1967
Temporal Modalities in Arabic Logic.
Dordrecht (Reidel), 1967; Supplementary Series of Foundations
of Language.
The Philosophy of Leibniz. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall), 1967.
Studies in Arabic Philosophy. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1967.
1968
Topics in Philosophical Logic.
Dordrecht (Reidel), 1968; Synthese
Library.
1969
Essays in Philosophical Analysis: Historical and
Systematic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1969. Reissued in 1982 by
the University Press of America
(Washington, D.C.)
Introduction to Value Theory.
Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall), 1969. Reissued
in 1982 by the University Press of America
(Washington, D.C.).
Many-Valued Logic.
New York (McGraw-Hill),
1969. Reprinted: Aldershot
(Gregg Revivals), 1993.
1970
Scientific Explanation.
New York (The Free Press), 1970.
1971
Temporal Logic. New
York and Vienna (Springer-Verlag), 1971. Co-authored
with Alastair Urquhart.
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1972
Welfare: The Social Issues in Philosophical Perspective.
Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1972.
1973
The Coherence Theory of Truth.
Oxford (The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press), 1973. Reissued in 1982 by the University Press of America
(Washington, D.C.).
Conceptual Idealism. Oxford
(Basil Blackwell), 1973. Reissued in 1982 by the
University Press of America (Washington, D.C.).
The Primacy of Practice.
Oxford (Basil Blackwell),
1973. Translated into Spanish as La Primacia de la práctica, Madrid
(Editorial Tecnos), 1980.
1974
Studies in Modality. Oxford
(Basil Blackwell), 1974. (American Philosophical
Quarterly, Monograph Series.)
1975
A Theory of Possibility.
Oxford (Basil Blackwell),
1975. Co-published in the USA by
the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Unselfishness: The Role of the Vicarious Affects in Moral
Philosophy and Social Theory. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1975.
1976
Plausible Reasoning. Amsterdam
(Van Gorcum), 1976.
1977
Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the
Theory of Knowledge. Albany (State University of New York Press), 1977. Translated into
Japanese as Taiwa No Roni
Tokyo: Kinokuniya Press, 1981.
Methodological Pragmatism.
Oxford (Basil Blackwell),
1977. Co-published in the USA by
the New York University Press.
1978
Peirce’s
Philosophy of Science. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame
Press), 1978.
Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics
of Research in Natural Science. Oxford
(Basil Blackwell), 1978. Co-published in the USA by
the University of Pittsburgh Press. Translated
into German as Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt (Berlin: De Gruyter
Verlag, 1982). Translated into French as Le Progrès Scientifique
(Paris: Presses Universitaries de France,
1993).
1979
Cognitive Systematization.
Oxford (Basil Blackwell),
1979. Co-published in the USA by Rowman & Littlefield. Translated
into Spanish as Sistematización cognoscitiva (Mexico City: Siglo
Veintiuno Editores, 1981).
Leibniz: An Introduction to His Philosophy. Oxford (Basil
Blackwell), 1979; APQ Library of Philosophy.
Co-published in the USA by Rowman & Littlefield. Reprinted
in 1986 by the University Press of America
(Lanham, MD). Reprinted in 1993 by Gregg
Revivals (Aldershot, UK).
The Logic of Inconsistency: A Study in Nonstandard
Possible-World Semantics and Ontology. Oxford (Basil
Blackwell), 1979; APQ Library of Philosophy.
Co-authored with Robert Brandom. Published in the USA by Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ; 1979).
1980
Induction. Oxford
(Basil Blackwell), 1980. Co-published in the USA by
the University of Pittsburgh Press. Translated into German as Induktion (Munich: Philosophia
Verlag, 1986).
Scepticism.
Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1980. Co-published in the USA
by Rowman & Littlefield.
Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1980.
1981
Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature:
A Group of Essays. Dordrecht
and Boston (Reidel), 1981.
1982
Empirical Inquiry. Totowa,
N.J. (Rowan & Littlefield), 1982.
Co-published in Great Britain by Athlone Press (London, 1982).
1983
Kant’s Theory of Knowledge and Reality: A Group of Essays. Washington,
D.C. (University
Press of America), 1983.
Mid-Journey: An Unfinished Autobiography. Lanham MD (University Press of America)
1983.
Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk
Evaluation and Management. Washington,
D.C. (University
Press of America), 1983.
1984
The Limits of Science.
Berkeley and Los Angeles (University of California Press), 1984. Translated into German as Grenzen der Wissenschaft.
Dietzingen: Reclam Verlag, 1985. Translated
into Spanish as Las Limites de la Sciencia (Madrid: Editorial Tecnos,
1994). Translated into Italian as I Limita della Sciencia
(Rome: Armando Editore, 1990). Second (revised and enlarged) edition (Pittsburgh: Unviersity of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
The Riddle of Existence: An Essay in Idealistic Metaphysics. Washington,
D.C. (University
Press of America), 1984.
1985
Pascal’s Wager: An
Essay on Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1985.
The Strife of Systems: An Essay on the Grounds and Implications of Philosophical
Diversity. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1985. Translated into
Italian as La Lotti dei Sistemi (Genoa: Marietti,
1993); into German as Der Streit der Systeme
(Würzburg: Königshausen
und Neumann, 1997); into Spanish (in progress).
1986
Ongoing Journey: An Autobiographical Essay.
Lanham MD (University Press of America)
1986.
1987
Ethical Idealism: A Study of the Import of Ideals.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London (University of California Press), 1987.
Forbidden Knowledge and Other Essays on the Philosophy of
Cognition. Dordrecht
(Reidel Publishing Co.), 1987. (Episteme Series,
No.13).
Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal. Dordrecht (Reidel
Publishing Co.), 1987.
1988
Rationality. Oxford (Clarendon
Press), 1988. Translated into German as Rationalität (Wuerzburg:
Koenigshausen & Neumann, 1993); into Spanish as La
Racionalidad (Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1993); into Italian as Razionalità
(Rome: Armando Editore, 1999).
1989
Cognitive Economy: Economic Perspectives in the Theory of
Knowledge. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1989.
Moral Absolutes: An Essay on the Nature and the Rationale of
Morality. New York
(Peter Lang Publishing Co.), l989.
A Useful Inheritance: Evolutionary Epistemology in
Philosophical Perspective. Savage, MD (Rowman and Littlefield), 1989. Translated into German as Warum
sind wir nicht klüger (Stuttgart: Hirzel Verlag, 1994).
1990
Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical
Anthropology. Stanford (Stanford University
Press), 1990.
1991
Baffling Phenomena and Other Studies in
the Philosophy of Knowledge and Valuation. Savage, MD (Rowman and Littlefield), 1991.
Frank Plumpton Ramsey: On Truth, ed.
by Nicholas Rescher and Ulrich Majer (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991).
Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective. Princeton (Princeton University
Press), 1991.
Leibniz’s Monadology:
An Edition for Students. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 1991. Co-published in the United Kingdom by Routledge (London).
1992
The Validity of Values: Human Values in Pragmatic
Perspective. Princeton (Princeton University Press), 1992.
1993
Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus.
Oxford (Clarendon
Press), 1993.
Standardism: An Empirical Approach
to Philosophical Methodology. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1993. Reissued in
paperback, 2000.
1994
American Philosophy Today, and
Other Philosophical Studies. Savage, MD (Rowman
& Littlefield), 1994.
Animal Conversations: A Collection of Fables. Verona PA (NAP
Publications), 1994.
Metaphilosophical Inquiries.
Princeton (Princeton University
Press), 1994.
1995
Essays in the History of Philosophy.
Aldershot, UK
(Avebury), 1995.
Luck.
New York (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1995. Translated into German as Glück
(Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1996); into Spanish by
Carlos Gardini as Suerte,
azard destino: Aventuras y desaventuras de la vida cotidiana (Santiago de
Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello,
1997). Also translated into Japanese and Korean.
Process Metaphysics.
Albany (State University of New York Press), 1995.
Satisfying Reason: Studies in the Theory of Knowledge. Dordrecht (Kluwer),
1995.
1996
Instructive Journey: An Autobiographical Essay.
Lanham MD (University Press of America),
1996.
Priceless Knowledge? An Essay
to Economic Limits to Scientific Progress.
Savage, MD (Rowman and
Littlefield), 1996.
Public Concerns: Philosophical Studies of Social Issues. Lanham, MD (Rowman & Littlefield),
1996.
Studien zur naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnislehre. Würzburg
(Königshausen & Neumann), 1996.
1997
Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason.
Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1997.
Predicting the Future. Albany NY (State University of New York Press), 1997.
Profitable Speculations: Essays on Current Philosophical Themes.
Lanham MD (Rowman
& Littlefield), 1997.
1998
Communicative Pragmatism: And Other Philosophical
Essays on Language. Lanham MD (Rowman &
Littlefield), 1998.
Complexity: A Philosophical Overview. New
Brunswick NJ. (Transaction Publishers), 1998.
1999
Kant and the Reach of Reason.
Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 1999.
Razón y valores en la era cientifico-tecnológica. Barcelona
(Editorial Paidos), 1999.
Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy.
Albany (State University of New York Press), 1999.
2000
Inquiry Dynamics. New
Brunswick, NJ (Transaction),
2000.
Nature and Understanding: A Study of the Metaphysics of Science
Oxford (Clarendon
Press), 2000.
2001
Cognitive Pragmatism. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 2001.
Minding Matter and Other Essays in Philosophical
Inquiry. Lanham,
MD (Rowman &
Littlefield), 2001.
Paradoxes.
Chicago, Ill. (Open Court Publishing Co.), 2001.
Philosophical Reasoning. Oxford
(Blackwell), 2001.
Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2001.
2002
Enlightening Journey: An Autobiographical Essay.
Lanham MD (Lexington Books, 2002).
Fairness.
New Brunswick, NJ (Transaction
Publishers), 2002.
Rationalität, Wissenschaft, und Praxis. Würzburg (Konigshausen
& Neumann), 2002.
2003
Cognitive Idealization: On the Nature and Utility
of Cognitive Ideals. Uxbridge, UK: (Cambridge Scholars Press) 2003.
Niagara-on-the-Lake as a Confederate Refuge. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada
(Niagara Historical Society Museum), 2003.
On Leibniz.
Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press) 2003.
Sensible Decisions On the Ways and Means
of Rational Decision. Totowa, N.J.
(Rowman & Littlefield) 2003.
Rationality in Pragmatic Perspective. Lewiston, N.Y.
(Mellen Press) 2003.
Epistemology: On the Scope and Limits of Knowledge. Albany
NY (SUNY Press) 2003.
Imagining Irreality: A
Study of Unrealized Possibility.
Chicago, Ill.
(Open Court Publishing Co.) 2003.
2004
Value Matters: Studies in Axiology. Frankfurt (Ontos Verlag), 2004.
2005
Cognitive
Harmony. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2005.
Common Sense.
Milwaukee, WI (Marquette University Press) 2005.
[Aquinas Lecture]
Cosmos and Logos: Studies in Greek Philosophy. Frankfurt
(Ontos Verlag), 2005).
Epistemic Logic.
Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press) 2005.
Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh
Press), 2005.
Reason and Reality: Realism and Idealism in Pragmatic Perspective.
Lanham, MD. (Rowman & Littlefield), 2005.
Scholastic Meditations.
Washington, DC (Catholic University of America Press), 2005.
What If? Thought Experimentation in Philosophy. New
Brunswick, NJ. (Transaction Books), 2005.
2005-2006
Nicholas Rescher: Collected Papers, 10 vol’s; Frankfurt (Ontos Verlag), 2005: Studies
in 20th Century Philosophy, Studies in Pragmatism, Studies
in Idealism, Studies in Philosophical Inquiry. 2006: Studies
in Cognitive Finitude, Studies in Social Philosophy, Studies in Philosophical
Anthropology, Studies in Value Theory, Studies in Metaphilosophy, Studies
in the History of Logic.
2006
Metaphysics. Amherst, N.Y. (Prometheus
Books), 2005.
Fondements
d’ontologie du procès. Edited by Michel Weber. Frankfurt (Ontos Verlag), 2006.
Presumption.
Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2006.
Conditionals. Boston (MIT
Press), 2006.
Philosophical Dialectic: An Essay in Metaphilosophy.
Albany, NY. (SUNY Press), 2006.
Epistemetrics. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press),
2006.
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