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Philosophy began hundreds of years BCE, and by now has grown to a scope and scale beyond acceptability by any single mind. But a sampling of episodes and issues can convey some idea of the nature of the field. It is the goal of the book to clarify a wide spectrum of key philosophical issues.

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“In Ventures in Philosophical History, Nicholas Rescher forcefully brings us to understand how viewing philosophy in terms of the questions it seeks to answer gives us a new appreciation of the dialectic growth of philosophical thought. Using contemporary methods, Rescher illuminates older philosophical questions created by older philosophers, bringing us and them into a continuous conversation. His understanding of the liveliness of contemporary philosophy is refreshing and most welcome.” —Joseph C. Pitt, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Virginia Tech, USA. “Set in his deep command of the history of philosophy, with the common-sense  accessibility for which he is known, Rescher offers new and surprising philosophical insights into a range of historical figures, from Leibniz to Wittgenstein and Gödel.” —Patrick Grim, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Stony Brook University, USA. “Philosophers today continue to be nourished by the work of earlier philosophers, and, in contrast to natural scientists, they develop the earlier work without replacing it. This is what Rescher teaches us in this new collection of papers as he illuminates various key issues of philosophy.” —John F. Crosby, Professor of Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA. “Nicholas Rescher provides rich coverage of doctrines of Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Peirce, Wittgenstein, and Gödel. He judiciously applies formal logic to clarify and criticize. The culmination is a clear and convincing account of the agenda of philosophy—how it differs from science, and why its own internal dynamic endures.” —Neil Tennant, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in Philosophy, Distinguished University Scholar, College of Arts & Humanities Department of Philosophy, USA.

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Nicholas Rescher is an extensively published philosopher. He has been awarded the Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Helmholtz Medal of the Berlin/Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Honorary degrees have been awarded to him by eight universities in three continents.

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