Collected Papers - Volume 11: Studies in the Philosophy of Science - A Counterfactual Perspective on Quantum Entanglement

Since Rescher's earliest publication of the middle 1950's in this field, the philosophy of science has constituted one focus of his interest and preoccupation. Some dozen of Rescher's contributions to the field are published in the present volume, and they combine to convey his favored way of blending empirical data with philosophical theorizing.

About the author

Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Rescher
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2011
• EAN: 9783110325447
• ISBN: 978-3-11-032544-7
• No. of pages: 273
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 22 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 428 g
• Sets: Collected Papers; Collected Papers
• Series: Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers; Collected Papers; Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day