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In 2017, the University of Notre Dame Press will release Metaphysical Perspectives by Nicholas Rescher. Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
From the publisher’s description of Metaphysical Perspectives:
In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the architecture of nature at large, (2) ourselves as nature’s denizens and our potential for learning about it, and (3) the transcendent domain of possibility and value. Rescher engages issues across a wide range of metaphysical themes, from different world views and ultimate questions to contingency and necessity, intelligent design and world-improvability, personhood and consciousness, empathy and other minds, moral obligation, and philosophical methodology. Over the course of this book, Rescher discusses, with his characteristic fusion of idealism and pragmatism, an integrated overview of the key philosophical problems grounded in an idealistically value-oriented approach. His discussion seeks to shed new light on philosophically central issues from a unified point of view.
See additional details here.
Watch Rescher on speak on “God and the Grounding of Morality,” where his talk was part of the “Must Morality Be Grounded in God?” conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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