Nicholas Rescher#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1780 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pitt.edu/~rescher |
Nicholas Rescher passed away January 5, 2024.
Positions Held
- University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- 1961 - 1968 Professor of Philosophy
- 1968 - 1970 Research Professor of Philosophy
- 1970 - present University Professor of Philosophy
- Lehigh University (Bethelem, Pennsylvania)
- 1957 - 1959 Assistant Professor of Philosophy
- 1959 - 1961 Associate Professor of Philosophy
- The RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, California)
- 1954 - 1955 Assistant Mathematician
- 1955 - 1956 Associate Mathematician
- 1956 - 1957 Research Mathematician
- Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
- 1950 - 1951 Assistant in Instruction (Philosophy)
- 1951 - 1952 Instructor in Philosophy
Fields of Scholarship
- American pragmatism
- Philosophy of science
- History of logic
- Philosophical issues
- Logic
- Futuristics
- Medieval Arabic theory of modal syllogistic
- Idealism
- Theory of knowledge
Honours and Awards
- Honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea)
- The Royal Society of Canada
- The Institut International de Philosophie
- The Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
- Fellowships by the Ford, Guggenheim, and the National Science Foundations
- 2006 Thomas Aquinas Medal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
- 2005 Beligian Cardinal Mercier Prize
- 1983 Alexander von Humboldt Humanities Prize
- 1977 Honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
