Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Axel Wüstehube and Michael Quante -- Introduction Is Systematic Philosophy Still Possible? / Axel Wüstehube -- Moral Facts and Objective Values / Timo Airaksinen -- Values and Reasons / Leonardo Rodríguez Duplá -- Rescher on Evolution and The Intelligibility of Nature / George Gale -- The Nature of Philosophy / John Kekes -- Individual and other Person Morality: A Plea for an Emotional Response to Ethical Problems / Peter Machamer -- Opus Incertum / Diego Marconi -- Scientific Realism and Pragmatic Idealism / Michele Marsonet -- Was Spinoza A Person? / Raymond Martin -- Brute Facts, Real Minds and The Postulation of Reality Rescher on Idealism and The Ontological Neutrality of Experience / Helmut Pape -- Doing Philosophy Rescher’s Normative Methodology / Joseph C. Pitt -- Is Truth “Ideal Coherence”? / Lorenz B. Puntel -- Understanding Conceptual Schemes Rescher’s Quarrel with Davidson / Michael Quante -- The Ontology of Facts and Values / Arto Siitonen -- Skeptical Challenge and The Burden of Proof on Reschers Critique of Skepticism / Marcus Willaschek -- Responses / Nicholas Rescher -- Name Index / Axel Wüstehube and Michael Quante -- Poznań Studies in The Philosophy of The Sciences and The Humanities / Axel Wüstehube and Michael Quante.

The System of Pragmatic Idealism is of special importance for Nicholas Rescher's philosophical work, because here he has presented the systematic approach at once. Dedicated to his 70th birthday a group of European and U.S-american philosophers discuss the main topics of Rescher's philosophical system. The contributions which are presented here for the first time and Nicholas Rescher's responses cover the most important topics of philosophy and give a deep and detailed insight into the strenght of Rescher's pragmatic idealism. This volume is of interest for philosophers studying Rescher's philosophy and for all those who are interested in systematic philosophy and the vividnes of pragmatism and idealism in present philosophy.

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