Nicholas Rescher
Nicholas Rescher was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961. He was chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science and chairman of the philosophy department.
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Background
- Born in
- Hagen
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityQueens College
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Helmholtz Medal🏆 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany🏆 Aquinas Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Alonzo Church
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Ernest Sosa📖 Brian Skyrms
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1928
Born
Birth2024
Died
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