Scholastic Meditations by Nicholas Rescher

Scholastic Meditations by Nicholas Rescher

The studies gathered in this volume pay homage to the spirit of Scholasticism. They address key issues in that tradition - some from an historical point of view, others from a more substantive standpoint. The essays are written in the conviction that there is much to be learned from the schoolmen even when one fails to agree with their positions.

Rescher's knowledge of the history of philosophy—especially the medieval and modern eras—is impressiveDrawing upon Aquinas and other great scholastics, he is able to formulate questions and propose solutions to contemporary metaphysics and epistemology that are informed by the great medieval scholastics in a way that critically employs these authors without slavishly following them wherever they lead."" — Craig A. Boyd, Review of Metaphysics

""Rescher's scholastically inspired meditations are intended to mediate between typical scholastic concerns and contemporary philosophical issues. . . . [T]his collection provides a good model of how the contributions of the early scholastics can be brought to bear on contemporary philosophy, making this book as intellectually provocative to analytic philosophers as to neoscholastics. . . . The result is a volume that manifests the ways in which the career of this productive late-twentieth-century philosopher itself mediates between scholasticism and contemporary thought. The reader will indeed find here the fruit of both the respectful study of the tradition as well as critical philosophical analysis."" — Michael Tkacz, Philosophy in Review

Nicholas Rescher is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. A former president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, he is the author more than one hundred books in various areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, value theory and social philosophy, logic, the philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy.

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ISBN 13	9780813232072
ISBN 10	0813232074
Title	Scholastic Meditations
Author	Nicholas Rescher
Series	Studies In Philosophy And The History Of Philosophy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Catholic University of America Press
Year published	2019-01-30
Number of pages	192
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