Introduction: Is Systematic Philosophy still Possible? / Axel Wustehube -- 1. Moral Facts and Objective Values / Timo Airaksinen -- 2. Values and Reasons / Leonardo Rodriguez Dupla -- 3. Rescher on Evolution and the Intelligibility of Nature / George Gale -- 4. The Nature of Philosophy / John Kekes -- 5. Individual and Other-Person Morality: A Plea for an Emotional Response to Ethical Problems / Peter Machamer -- 6. Opus Incertum / Diego Marconi -- 7. Scientific Realism and Pragmatic Idealism / Michele Marsonet -- 8. Was Spinoza a Person? / Raymond Martin -- 9. Brute Facts, Real Minds and the Postulation of Reality: Rescher on Idealism and the Ontological Neutrality of Experience / Helmut Pape -- 10. Doing Philosophy: Rescher's Normative Methodology / Joseph C. Pitt -- 11. Is Truth "Ideal Coherence"? / Lorenz B. Puntel -- 12. Understanding Conceptual Schemes: Rescher's Quarrel with Davidson / Michael Quante -- 13. The Ontology of Facts and Values / Arto Siitonen -- 14. Skeptical Challenge and the Burden of Proof: On Rescher's Critique of Skepticism / Marcus Willaschek -- 15. Responses / Nicholas Rescher
