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Dismayed at what he saw as the recent tendency to misconstrue pragmatism as a freewheeling form of relativism designed to abrogate rational standards rather than a normatively rigorous doctrine designed to substantiate them, Rescher (philosophy, U. of Pittsburgh) defends the American contribution to systematic philosophy against deconstruction into philosophical vacuity. In some ways, his treatise is a companion to his 1996 Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy.