Minding Matter: And Other Essays in Philosophical Inquiry

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This text presents a group of philosophical essays thematically divided. The first essays deal with issues of philosophizing and metaphilosophy. The remainder of the book covers issues of values and human affairs. The studies collected within are united by a common methodology of probative investigation and their common purpose to provide instructive insight into a varied spectrum of important philosophical issues. Each essay is connected to the next by representing common modus operandi, deploying the classificatory techniques that characterize the analytical mode of philosophizing in an endeavour to elucidate some larger-scale issues of traditional concern in philosophy.

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This new collection of reflections on contemporary philosophy and culture is remarkable for both its synoptic power and its breadth of vision. Rescher writes with clarity, historical wisdom, and thought-provoking insight. A delight to read. -- James W. Felt, Santa Clara University
Minding Matter shows Rescher at the top of his form, working out the consequences of his conceptual pragmatism for the central problems of philosophy. Of special interest in this volume are his metaphilosophical reflections on the history of twentieth century philosophy, idealism, analytic philosophy, and American thought. Rescher is masterful in using the techniques of analytic philosophyexplicit and rigorous argument, scrupulous attention to details and distinctionsin examining the scope andlimits of analytic philosophy itself... -- Hugh Wilder, The College of Charleston
Minding Matter shows Rescher at the top of his form, working out the consequences of his conceptual pragmatism for the central problems of philosophy. Of special interest in this volume are his metaphilosophical reflections on the history of twentieth century philosophy, idealism, analytic philosophy, and American thought. Rescher is masterful in using the techniques of analytic philosophyexplicit and rigorous argument, scrupulous attention to details and distinctionsin examining the scope and limits of analytic philosophy itself. -- Hugh Wilder, The College of Charleston

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Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. A former president of the American Philosophical Association, he is an honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has held visiting lectureship at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg. As the author of more than eighty works ranging over many areas of philosophy, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Scholarship in 1984.