Search Results: Philosophy of Science

New Haven: Yale University Press,. Hardback. 230pp. The historian reflects on the nature of both historical and scientific knowledge considers the view that there is 'no science except scientists' , and reflect upon the work of Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Marx, Durhem and Heisenberg, and review the implications for Christianity. Smartly quarter bounding with maroon cloth and silver titles to spine and silver grey papers to boards. Maroon endpapers. Minimal wear. Very clean and bright. Near fine copy in near fine dust wrapper. . Hardcover. 2002.

London: Methuen, 1967. 1st Edition . Black Boards. Very Good/Fine-. 13.5 cms x 21 Cms. x+158, Roger Smith's sm. green stamp fr. pastedown + his pencilled lining and often acerbic marginalia throughout - could be erased but would not advise it. generally excellent physical condition. Jacket unclipped & clean but one sm.chip top sp. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Hutchinson, 1958. 4th Imp. (1st-1953) . Black Cloth. VG/Good-VG. 13 Cms x 19 Cms. 176 (to viii in Roman); light browning along fore-edge of fr.endpaper, rear endpaper adhering to rear pastedown, possibly a production error, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in bright unworn covers; unclipped jacket only slightly edge worn and clean but sl.browning to sp. & wraparounds.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. VG/VG-. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. x+214+16 (Int.Lib.Sociology & Social Reconstruction series list); clean tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers, trace of white along one bottom edge; unclipped jacket generally clean, sl.rubbing & minor nicks/chips to top edge.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG(+)/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. ix+206, 17 text figs (I make it); very faint hint of browning to front endpaper otherwise clean, tight & unmarked in bright clean covers unworn bar sl.spine end bumping.

London, etc.: Cassell, 1917. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 14 Cms x 20.5 Cms. viii+255; end gutters cracked but firm, brown flecks to endpapers, small black 'The Times Book Club' label to end pastedown plus faint blue date stamp '12 May 1917', otherwise internally clean and unmarked; covers generally clean, spine very sunfaded and end-rubbed. An interesting attempt by a committed psychic researcher to formulate a more general philosophy of science in which every science has both 'Light' (i.e. fully known) and 'Borderland' or 'Twilight' regions still under exploration. He reviews the latter not just in relation to psychic phenomena but in orthodox disciplines too. Am charitably classifying as Philosophy of Science rather than Occult.

London: Scientific Book Guild, 1960. 1st thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 15 Cms x 23.5 Cms. Glossy illustrated boards, virtually pristine. 171 pp. 32 numbered plates on 10 sheets; previous owner's small stamp to fr. pastedown, otherwise internally excellent. Originally issued by Hutchinson in 1957.

London: Werner Laurie, 1955. 1st ed. . Orange Cloth. G-VG/G-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. ix+214; two small 'name stamps - one to each endpaper, otherwise clean,and tight, main problem is blotchy browning to textblock edges, usually extending very slightly onto page pargins, and faintly along endpaper edges, covers clean, bright and unworn; unclipped jacket similarly affected by blotchy browning to wraparounds, back (fairly extensively) and fore-edge folds - a shame as otherwise clean and virtually unworn bar a trivial crease bottom front edge. CoversPhysics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology and 'The Unclassifiable'. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Dordrecht Etc.: D. Reidel, 1981. 1st Edition . Paperback. Fair/good/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. ix+525+2(series list). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol.47. At first glance this looks very good but closer examination reveals what appears to be faint waterstaining on top side margins through to c.p.17 and down front free endpaper edge, plus what looks like a small nibble from top outer corner from p.483 to end (with some brown staining on rear free endpaper too), Covers clean and undamaged however, although sp. and strip along front cover are slightly darkened. An excellent working copy only therefore. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

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London: Methuen, 1972. 1st Edition . Dark Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. 133 pp., near mint copy in clipped, unworn jacket. A wide-ranging collection of 7 essays (plus rejoinder and reply to the first) ranging from literature and psychoanalysis to animal experimentation, genetics and speculations on the future. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Boston, MA Beacon Press, 1956. Hardcover First Edition (1956), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted, in accordance with Beacon's customary practice at the time of publication. First Edition (1956), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted, in accordance with Beacon's customary practice at the time of publication. Very Good+ in Good only DJ: The Book shows indications of very careful use: just a touch of wear to the extremities; the text pages have tanned very slightly, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and a minor, unobtrusive flaw. Corners sharp. The DJ shows moderate wear to the extremities, with scant loss to chips; a small patch of heavy… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1931. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Good. 12.5 Cm x 18.5 Cm. vi+119; ex-Guild of Pastoral Psychology library with loan-sheet and messy yellow mark etc. fr.pastedown (never borrowed), William Howell Peacey's 1946 donation label fr.fee endpaper plus fragments of another loan sheet and some browning, mostly to inner half, (as has rear endpaper) extensive right-wing pencil annotations throughout; nevertheless tight & otherwise clean; covers not faded or physically damaged but faint black marking centre sp.&fr.joint apparently from a label removal, tape ghost also being present to back. Preface signed from Grasmere, so presumably rattled off during a vacation back in the homeland.

New York: New York University Press, 1988. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xix+200; no obvious flaws, internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean, bright and unworn. 12 papers on various aspects of the bearing of feminist perspectives on philosophy of science and social science methodology. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937. 1st ed. . Light Orange Cloth. VG(-)/No Jacket. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. 272 pp.; internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers generally clean bar small black smudge top spine but corners all a little curled, spine ends have hint of rubbing, small cloth ripple lower front and spine slightly faded with spots of rubbing here and there, remains quite acceptable however and these faults do not amount to very much. Includes discussion of most aspects of science-religion relation, arguments for the existence of God, religious experience etc. including mentions of psychology, Whitehead and evolution. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down outside this range.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970. 1st Ed . Grey Cloith. VG-/No Jacket (none issued). 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xix+384; a very tiny black squiggle on t.p. beside title, some black marker lines across 1.5 cms of top edge of textblock, otheriwse clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers. 'All but two of the papers' originated in a 1969 University of Minnesota conference on relations between history and philosophy of science. Topics include Copernicus, Ernst Mach, hermeticism and physics as well as broader conceptual issues. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. 1st British Edition . Maroon cloth. VG/VG. 18.5 Cms x 24 Cms. ix+381, dated sig.of eminent historian of science R.M.Young top fr.free endpaper+ his v.occ. pencilled marginal lines, o/wise clean, tight & unmarked in clean virtually unworn covers; jacket unclipped and exceptionally clean except along edges, lower edge has v.thin strip of what looks like adhesive tape removal ghost, top edge sl.rubbed (couple of sm.nicks to back) and v.sl.browned, will seal when ordered. Despite not being billed as such this is basically an edited volume of extracts in 5 parts with introductions by Madden+two extracts from him (on induction and psychoanalysis), sources range from Hume, Kant, Chauncey Wright and J.S.Mill to Hempel, Einstein, Reichenbach, Nagel and Ayer among others. Text set in double column format.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963. 1st ed. . Blue Cloth. VG+/G-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. viii+(5, contents)+272, 3 text figs, top edge blue; bookseller's very faint small stamp bottom front endpaper, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked in clean unworn cover with silver lettering and central motif to front board; unclipped jacket with only slight edge rubbing but 4 nicks (2 qualifying as short tears) and back has edge-darkening & faint dustiness (will apply protective wrapper when ordered and mend tears). A nice copy of this quite original analysis of the religion-science relationship. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxford: American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph 3/ Basil Blackwell, 1969. 1st Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 208pp. heraldic New College, Oxford lib.plate fr.pastedown, cancelled lib.stamp top fr. free endpaper, sm.square lib.stamps on t.p. & final free endpaper (this pretty inoffensive actually); internally clean, tight & unmarked in good clean unworn lib.binding with no lib.#s . Among the contributors to these 10 essays are Achinstein, Sklar, Bunge and Mellor. An interesting collection which appeared as Philosophy of Science was in state of considerable flux. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Oxord: Basil Blackwell, 1977. 1st ed. . Brown Cloth. VG-Fine/VG+. 14 Cms x 21.5 Cms. ix+154; Roger Smith's small green stamp to front pastedown, small paper fault crease and tear bottom outer corner of t.p., otherwise virtually pristine, unclipped jacketclean bar a few small flecks down front fore-edge+another small line of little consequence, unworn but fading to spine and top front. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.