Böcker av Nicholas Rescher

This volume explores the nature of complexity and considers its bearing on our world and how we manage our affairs within it. Although offering a sobering outlook, Rescher also believes that complexity entails mixed blessings: our imperfect knowledge provides a rationale for putting forth our best efforts.

Regression addresses what has come before. The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking - their problem is that of the question: where do we go from here? This book examines the theory of regression and includes information on the topics of vicious regress, innocuous regress, circularity regress and propositional regress.

This work aims to show how the idea of distributive equity forms the core of the concept of fairness in distributive justice. It concludes that fairness is a fundamentally ethical conception whose distinctive modus operandi contrasts sharply with the aims of paternalism or economic advantage.

For teaching Leibniz - a philosopher as difficult as he is important - this is as good a work as we are ever likely to get. It gives good guidance throughout.' - Robert E. Butts, University of Western Ontario