Dr.
Nicholas Rescher
(
–
)
1928
2024
University of Pittsburgh
;
Pittsburgh, PA
Philosopher; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2009
Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy; Chairman, Center for Philosophy of Science. Contributions to philosophy have involved the reformulation of idealism in general and the coherence theory of truth in particular, the effort to revive and reconstruct a version of pragmatism, the development of inconsistency-tolerant logic, and the development of an exponential retardation theory of scientific progress.
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