LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Nicholas Rescher University Professor ofPhilosophy University ofPittsburgh CONTENTS I. BOOKS 209 II. ARTICLES 211 A. Theory of Knowledge 211 B. Metaphysics 212 c. Social Philosophy, Ethics, Value Theory, Deontic Logic 213 D. Philosophy of Science 214 E. Philosophical Logic and Philosophy of Logic 215 F. Symbolic Logic 216 G. History of Logic 217 H. History of Philosophy 218 III. REVIEWS 219 I. BOOKS Theory ofKnowledge Hypothetical Reasoning. Amsterdam (North-Holland Publishing Co.), 1964; 'Studies in Logic' series edited by L. E. J. Brouwer, A. Heyting, And D. W. Beth. The Coherence Theory of Truth. Oxford (The Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press), 1973. The Primacy of Practice. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1973. Tr. into Spanish as ... Madrid (Editorial Technos), 1978. Plausible Reasoning. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Van Gorcum), 1976. Methodological Pragmatism. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1977. Co-published in the USA by the New York University Press. Dialectics: A Controversy-Oriented Approach to the Theory of Knowledge. Albany (State University of New York Press), 1977. Cognitive Systematization. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1978. Metaphysics The Philosophy of Leibniz. Englewood Oiffs (Prentice Hall), 1967. Essays in Philosophical Analysis: Historical and Systematic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1969. 209 E. Sosa (ed.), The Philosophy ofNicholas Rescher: Discussion and Replies, 209-220. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 1979 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland. 210 R ESCHER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY Conceptual Idealism. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1973. A Theory ofPossibility. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1975. Co-published in the USA by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Leibniz: An Introduction to His Philosophy. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1978; APQ Library of Philosophy. Co-published in the U.S.A. by Rowman-Littlefield. Social Philosophy, Ethics, and Value Theory Distributive Justice. New York (Bobbs Merrill Company), 1966. Introduction to Value Theory. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall), 1969. Welfare: The Social Issues in Philosophical Perspective. Pittsburgh (University of Pitts­ burgh Press), 1972. Unselfishness: The Role of the Vicarious Affects in Moral Philosophy and Social Theory. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1975. Crochets and Comments: Essays on Technological Progress and the Condition of Man, Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1979. Philosophy of Science Scientific Explanation. New York (The Free Press), 1970. Scientific Progress: A Philosophical Essay on the Economics of Research in Natural Science. Oxford (Basil blackwell), 1978. Co-published the USA by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Peirce's Philosophy of Science. Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame Press), 1978. Philosophical Logic (and Philosophy of Logic) An Introduction to Logic. New York (St. Martin's Press), 1964. The Logic of Commands. London (Routledge & Kegan Paul), 1966. Topics in Philosophical Logic. Dordrecht (Reidel), 1968; Synthese Library. Many- Valued Logic. New York (McGraw-Hill), 1969. Temporal Logic. New York and Vienna (Springer-Verlag), 1971. With Alastair Urquhart. Studies in Modality. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1974; American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series. The Logic of Inconsistency: A Study in Nonstandard Possible-World Semantics and Meinongian Ontology. Oxford (Basil Blackwell), 1979; APQ Library of Philosophy. (With Robert Brandom.) History of Philosophy (Arabic Philosophy and Greco/Arabie Philosophy) Al-Farabi: An Annotated Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1962. AI·Farabi's Short Commentary on Aristotle's 'Prior Analytics.' Translated from the Arabic, with Introduction and Notes. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1963. RESCHER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY 211 Studies in the History ofArabic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1963. The Development ofArabic Logic. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1964. AI-Kindi: An Annotated Bibliography. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1964. Galen and the Syllogism: An Examination of the Claim that Galen Originated the Fourth Figure of the Syllogism in the Light of New Data from Arabic Sources. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1966. Temporal Modalities in Arabic Logic. Dordrecht (Reidel), 1966; Supplementary Series of Foundations of Language. Studies in Arabic Philosophy. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1968. The Refutation by Alexander of Aphrodisias of Galen's Treatise on The First Mover. Karachi (Publications of the Central Institute of Islamic Research), 1970. With Michael E. Mannura. Books Edited 1. The Logic ofDecision and Action. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1967. [A volume of studies by several scholars edited by N. Rescher, and containing several contributions by him, including a monographic study of 'Semantic Founda­ tions for the Logic of Preference.') 2. Values and the Future: The Impact of Technological Change on American Values. New York (The Free Press), 1969. [A volume of studies by several scholars, edited by N. Rescher and Kurt Baier, and containing two contributions by N.R., including a monographic study of 'The Dynamics of Value Change.') 3. Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel. Dordrecht (Reidel), 1970; Synthese Library. [A Festschrift for this eminent philosopher of science, edited by N. Rescher and containing his essay 'Lawfulness as Mind-Dependent.') II. ARTICLES A. Theory of Knowledge 1. 'Problem No.7,' Analysis 16 (1955),4-5. 2. 'Translation as a Tool of Philosophical Analysis,' The Journal of Philosophy S3 (1955),219-224. 3. 'A Theory of Evidence,' Philosophy of Science 2S (1958), 83-94. 4. 'On Prediction and Explanation,' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 8 (1958),281-290. 5. 'Evidence in History and in the Law,' The Journal ofPhilosophy S6 (1959), 561- 578. With Carey B. Joynt. 6. 'The Legitimacy of Doubt,' The Review ofMetaphysics 31 (1959),226-234. 7. 'Presuppositions of Knowledge,' Revue Internationale de Philosophie 13 (1959), 418-429. 8. 'Randomness as a Means to Fairness,' The Journal of Philosophy S6 (1959), 967- 968. 9. 'Discourse on a Method,' Methodos 11 (1959), 81-89. 212 RESCHER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY 10. 'A Factual Analysis of Counterfactual Conditionals,' Philosophical Studies l1 (1960),49-54. 11. 'The Problem of a Logical Theory of Belief Statements,' Philosophy of Science 27 (1960),88-95. Spanish tr. as "El Problema de una Teoria Logica de los Enunciados de Creencia" in T. M. Simpson (ed.) , Semantica Filosofica: Problemas x Discussiones (Buenos Aires, 1973), pp. 401-416. 12. 'Belief-Contravening Suppositions,' The Philosophical Review 70 (1961),176-196. Reprinted in H. Feigl, W. Sellars, and K. Lehrer (eds.), New Readings in Philosoph­ ical Analysis (New York, 1972), pp. 530-545, and E. Sosa (ed.), Causation and Conditionals (Oxford, 1975), pp. 156-164. 13. 'On the Logic of Presupposition,' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 21 (1961),521-527. 14. 'Pragmatic Justification: A Cautionary Tale,' Philosophy 39 (1964), 346-348. 15. 'A New Look at the Problem of Innate Ideas,' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 17 (1966), 205-218. 16. 'The Future as an Object of Research,' RAND Corporation Research Paper P-3593 (April, 1967). 17. 'A Methodological Problem in the EvaluatiOil of Explanations,' Nous 2 (1968), 121-129. With Brian Skyrms. 18. 'On Alternatives in Epistemic Logic,' Journal of Philosophical Logic 2 (1973), 119-135. With Arnold vander Nat. 19. 'Foundationalism, Coherentism, and the Idea of Cognitive Systematization,' The Journal ofPhil08ophy 71 (1974),695-708. 20. 'The Systematization of Knowledge,' Philosophy in Context 6 (1977), 20-24. 21. 'The Systematization of Knowledge,' International Classification 4 (1977), 73-75. [Note: This is a different paper from the preceding.] 22. 'Blanshard and the Coherence Theory of Truth' in The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard. (Forthcoming in the Library of Living Philosophers.) 23. 'Die Kriterien der Wahrheit' in G. Skirbekk (ed.), Wahrheitstheorien (Frankfurt, 1977). B. Metaphysics 1. 'The Identity of Indiscemibles: A Reinterpretation,' The Journal of Philosophy 52 (1955), 152-155. 2. 'A Reinterpretation of "Degrees of Truth",' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 19 (1958), 241-245. 3. 'The Ontological Proof Revisited,' Australiasian Journal of Phil080phy 37 (1959), 138-148. 4. 'Logical Analysis in Historical Application,' Methodos 11 (1959), 178-194. 5. 'The Paradox of Buridan's Ass: A Fundamental Problem in the Theory of Reasoned Choice,' Bucknell Review 9 (1960), 106-122. 6. 'The Revolt Against Process,' The Journal ofPhilosophy 59 (1962), 410-417. 7. 'Evaluative Metaphysics' in Metaphysics and Explanation, ed. by W. H. Capitan and D. D. Merrill. Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1966. 8. 'Aspect of Action' in Myles Brand (ed.), Reprinted in German in G. Meggle (ed.), RESCHER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY 213 Analytische Handlungstheorie, Vol. I (Frankfurt, 1977), pp. 1-7. 9. 'Conceptual Idealism,' Idealistic Studies 2 (1972), 191-207. 10. 'The Ontology of the Possible,' in M. Munitz (ed.), Essays in Ontology (New York, 1973). 11. 'McTaggart's Logical Determinism,' forthcoming in a volume of essays devoted to McTaggart's philosophy. 12. 'On First Principles and Their Legitimation,' Allgemeine Zeitschrift fur Philosophie 2 (1976), 1-16. 13. 'The Equivocality of Existence,' in N. Rescher (ed.), Existence and Ontology (Oxford, 1978;American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph No. 12). 14. 'Philosophical Disagreement,'