Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as president of the E
"Aporetics raises the question 'how do we proceed in the face of
inconsistencies?' and the issues of truth, plausibility, reasoning
patterns, the relation of belief to action. At this stage of his
life, Rescher has written on all of these. What is fun to see is
how he brings all the material together into a coherent whole. He
is an extremely elegant thinker and writer and Aporetics is Rescher
at his best."
--Joseph C. Pitt, Virginia Tech
"Extremely rich . . . to be praised for striking the right balance
between prescribing 'general' reasoning techniques, and insisting
that there will always be considerations specific to the
particulars of an individual case."
--Metascience
"Having coined the term 'apory, ' Nicholas Rescher takes up the
topic of 'aporetic' reasoning. How are we to proceed when things
individually plausible cannot all plausibly be true? Having
revealed how this phenomenon pervades philosophy, he defines some
of its main forms, and offers an applicable prescription."
--Ernest Sosa, Brown University
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