This work manages to present a complete and informative overview of Nicholas Rescher's philosphy. A prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism and of 20th century's thought at large, Rescher wrote an impressive amount of volumes and essays on a wide variety of philosophical topics. The present book purports to make his theses and theories accessible in one single volume. Moreover, it provides an apparatus of references to the relevant literature produced by Rescher's critics, and positions his work in the wider setting of its links with various contemporary American and European philosophers. The mixture of pragmatism and idealism, typical of Rescher's stance, is carefully taken into account, along with his contributions to logic, philosophy of science, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, ethics, social and political philosophy.
Michele Marsonet received his degrees from the University of Genoa (Italy) and the University of Pittsburgh (U.S.A.), and currently is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Genoa. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities around the world, and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written many books in Italian and English, among which: Science, Reality, and Language (1995), The Primacy of Practical Reason (1996), The Problem of Realism (ed, 2002), Logic and Metaphysics (ed, 2004).
