THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE:  EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENT

Hypothetical Reasoning. Amsterdam (North-Holland Publishing Co.; “Studies in Logic” series edited by L.E.J. Brouwer, E.W. Beth and A. Heyting.), 1964.

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.).

Plausible Reasoning. Amsterdam (Van Gorcum), 1976.

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.

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).

Skepticism. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1980. Co-published in the USA by Rowman & Littlefield.

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).

Empirical Inquiry. Totowa, N.J. (Rowan & Littlefield), 1982. Co-published in Great Britain by Athlone Press (London, 1982).

Studien zur naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnislehre. Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann), 1996.

Paradoxes. Chicago, Ill. (Open Court Publishing Co.), 2001.

Epistemetrics. (Publication arrangements not yet completed.)

THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE:  RATIONALITY AND PRAXIS

Forbidden Knowledge and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Cognition. Dordrecht (Reidel Publishing Co.), 1987. (Episteme Series, No.13).

Pascal’s Wager: An Essay on Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1985.

Rationality. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1988. Translated into German as Rationalität.(Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1993); into Spanish as La Racionalidad (Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1993); into Italian as Razionalità (Rome: Armando Editore, 1999).

Cognitive Economy: Economic Perspectives in the Theory of Knowledge. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1989.

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).

Baffling Phenomena and Other Studies in the Philosophy of Knowledge and Valuation. Savage, MD (Rowman and Littlefield), 1991.

Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective. Princeton (Princeton University Press), 1991.

Satisfying Reason: Studies in the Theory of Knowledge. Dordrecht (Kluwer), 1995.

Objectivity: The Obligations of Impersonal Reason. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1997.

Inquiry Dynamics. New Brunswick, NJ (Transaction), 2000).

Rationalität, Wissenschaft, und Praxis. Würzburg (Konigshausen & Neumann), 2002.

Epistemology: On the Scope and Limits of Knowledge. Albany NY (SUNY Press), 2003.

Cognitive Idealization: On the Nature and Utility of Cognitive Ideals. Uxbridge, UK: (Cambridge Scholars Press), 2003.

Epistemic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2004.

Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2005.

Cognitive Harmony. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2005.

Common Sense: A New Look at an Old Tradition. Milwaukee, WI. (Marquelle University Press), 2005. [The Aquinas Lecture for 2005.]

METAPHYSICS

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.)

Conceptual Idealism. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1973. Reissued in 1982 by the University Press of America (Washington, D.C.).

A Theory of Possibility. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1975. Co-published in the USA by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

The Riddle of Existence: An Essay in Idealistic Metaphysics. Washington, D.C. (University Press of America), 1984.

Complexity: A Philosophical Overview. New Brunswick NJ. (Transaction Publishers), 1998.

Nature and Understanding: A Study of the Metaphysics of Science. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 2000.

Imagining Irreality: A Study of Unrealized Possibility. Chicago, Ill. (Open Court Publishing Co.), 2003.

Metaphysics: The Key Issues from a Realistic Perspective. Amherst, NY. (Prometheus Books), 2005.

PRAGMATISM

The Primacy of Practice. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1973. Translated into Spanish as La Primacia de la práctica, Madrid (Editorial Tecnos), 1980.

Methodological Pragmatism. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1977. Co-published in the USA by the New York University Press.

Communicative Pragmatism: And Other Philosophical Essays on Language. Lanham MD (Rowman & Littlefield), 1998.

Realistic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Pragmatic Philosophy. Albany (State University of New York Press), 1999.

Rationality in Pragmatic Perspective. Lewiston NY (Mellen Press) 2003.

Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology. Pittsburgh, PA. (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2004.

Cognitive Pragmatism. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2001.

Reason and Reality: Realism and Idealism in Pragmatic Perspective Lanham, MD: (Rowman & Littlefield), 2005.

PROCESS PHILOSOPHY

Process Metaphysics. Albany (State University of New York Press), 1995.

Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 2001.

Fondements de l’ontologie de procés (Frankfurt: Ontos, 2005)

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientific Explanation. New York (The Free Press), 1970.

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).

Unpopular Essays on Technological Progress. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1980.

Risk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management. Washington, D.C. (University Press of America), 1983.

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).

Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal. Dordrecht (Reidel Publishing Co.), 1987.

Priceless Knowledge? An Essay to Economic Limits to Scientific Progress. Savage, MD (Rowman and Littlefield), 1996.

Predicting the Future. Albany NY (State University of New York Press), 1997.

ETHICS, AND VALUE THEORY

Introduction to Value Theory. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall), 1969. Reissued in 1982 by the University Press of America (Washington, D.C.).

Unselfishness: The Role of the Vicarious Affects in Moral Philosophy and Social Theory. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1975.

Ethical Idealism: A Study of the Import of Ideals. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London (University of California Press), 1987.

Moral Absolutes: An Essay on the Nature and the Rationale of Morality. New York (Peter Lang Publishing Co.), l989.

Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology. Stanford (Stanford University Press), 1990.

The Validity of Values: Human Values in Pragmatic Perspective. Princeton (Princeton University Press), 1992.

Luck. New York (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1995. Reissued by the University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) 2000. 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.

Razón y valores en la era cientifico-tecnológica. Barcelona (Editorial Paidos), 1999.

Sensible Decisions: On the Ways and Means of Rational Decision. Totowa, NJ. (Rowman & Littlefield), 2003.

Value Matters: Studies in Axiology. Frankfurt (Ontos Verlag) 2004.

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Distributive Justice. New York (Bobbs Merrill Company), 1966. Reissued in 1982 by the University Press of America (Washington, D.C.).

Welfare: The Social Issues in Philosophical Perspective. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1972.

Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus. Oxford (Clarendon Press), 1993. Also published in Bulgarian translation.

Public Concerns: Philosophical Studies of Social Issues. Lanham, MD (Rowman & Littlefield), 1996.

Fairness. New Brunswick, NJ (Transaction Publishers), 2002.

PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC  (AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC)

An Introduction to Logic. New York (St. Martin’s Press), 1964.

The Logic of Commands. London (Routledge & Kegan Paul), 1966.

Topics in Philosophical Logic. Dordrecht (Reidel), 1968; Synthese Library.

Many-Valued Logic. New York (McGraw-Hill), 1969. Reprinted: Aldershot (Gregg Revivals), 1993.

Temporal Logic. New York and Vienna (Springer-Verlag), 1971. Co-authored with Alastair Urquhart.

Studies in Modality. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1974. (American Philosophical Quarterly, Monograph Series.)

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).

Conditionals, Cambridge MA. (MIT Press), 2005.

METAPHILOSOPHY

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).

Standardism: An Empirical Approach to Philosophical Methodology. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1993. Reissued in paperback, 2000.

Metaphilosophical Inquiries. Princeton (Princeton University Press), 1994.

Profitable Speculations: Essays on Current Philosophical Themes. Lanham MD (Rowman & Littlefield), 1997.

Minding Matter and Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry. Lanham, MD (Rowman & Littlefield), 2001.

Philosophical Reasoning. Oxford (Blackwell), 2001.

What If? Thought Experimentation in Philosophy. New Brunswick, NJ. (Transaction Books), 2005.

Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005)

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: LEIBNIZ

The Philosophy of Leibniz. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall), 1967.

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).

Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Nature: A Group of Essays. Dordrecht and Boston (Reidel), 1981.

Leibniz’s Monadology: An Edition for Students. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1991. Co-published in the United Kingdom by Routledge (London).

On Leibniz. Pittsburgh (Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press, 2003).

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: ANCIENT

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 Refutation by Alexander of Aphrodisias of Galen’s Treatise on The First Mover. Karachi (Publications of the Central Institute of Islamic Research), 1970. Co-authored with Michael E. Marmura.

Cosmos and Cognition: studies in Greek Philosophy (Frankfurt: Ontos, 2005).

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN

Peirce’s Philosophy of Science. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1978.

Kant’s Theory of Knowledge and Reality: A Group of Essays. Washington, D.C. (University Press of America), 1983.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey: On Truth, ed. by Nicholas Rescher and Ulrich Majer. Dordrecht (Kluwer), 1991.

American Philosophy Today, and Other Philosophical Studies. Savage, MD (Rowman & Littlefield), 1994.

Essays in the History of Philosophy. Aldershot, UK (Avebury), 1995.

Kant and the Reach of Reason. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 1999.

Scholastic Meditations Washington, DC (Catholic University of American Press), 2005.

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY; ARABIC PHILOSOPHY AND GRECO/ARABIC PHILOSOPHY

Al-Farabi: An Annotated Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1962.

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.

The Development of Arabic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1964.

Al-Kindi: An Annotated Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1964.

Temporal Modalities in Arabic Logic. Dordrecht (Reidel), 1966; Supplementary Series of Foundations of Language.

Studies in Arabic Philosophy. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1968.

MISCELLANEOUS

Mid-Journey: An Unfinished Autobiography. Lanham MD (University Press of America) 1983.

Ongoing Journey: An Autobiographical Essay. Lanham MD (University Press of America) 1986. (An updating and continuation of the preceding.)

Instructive Journey: An Autobiographical Essay. Lanham MD (University Press of America, 1996. (An updating and combination of the preceding.)

Enlightenting Journey: An Autobiographical Essay. Lanham MD (Lexington Books, 2002).

Animal Conversations: A Collection of Fables. Verona PA (NAP Publications), 1994.

Niagara-on-the-Lake as a Confederate Refuge. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada (Niagara Historical Society Museum), 2003.

Introduction to Islamic Philosophy of Science and Logic With Mashhad Al-Allaf. Place? (Publisher?), 2005.

GERMAN BOOKS

Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt (German tr. by Gerhard Schaeffner).  Berlin (de Gruyter Verlag), 1982.

Grenzen der Wissenschaft  (German tr. by Kai Puntel).  Dietzingen (Reclam Verlag), 1985.  [Contains an introduction to NR’s thought, “Einführung in Nicholas Rescher’s pragmatische System philosophie,” pp. 7-47.]

Induktion:  Zur Rechtfertigung des Induktiven Schliessens (German tr. by Gerhard Schaeffner). Munich (Philosophia Verlag), 1987; “Introductiones” Series.

Rationalität (German tr. by Axel Wüstehube).  Würzburg:  Königshausen und Neumann, 1993.

Warum sind Wir nicht klüger? German tr. by Astrid and Helmut Pape. Stuttgart (Hirzel Verlag, Edition Universitas), 1994.

Glück:  Die Chancen des Zufalls. German tr. by Jens Hagesledt. Berlin (Berlin Verlag), 1995 .

Studien zur naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnislehre.  Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann), 1996.

Der Streit der Systeme (German tr. by Birger Brinkmeier).  Würzburg (Königshausen & Neumann), 1997.

Rationalität, Wissenschaft, und Praxis.  Würzburg (Konigshausen & Neumann), 2002.

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

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