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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [3], v-xiii, [3], 3-501, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Isaac Newton and by several facsimile title pages and facsimile pages of text from scientific journals in which Newton published. Edited by I. Bernard Cohen and assisted by Robert E. Schofield. Each section is introduced by an expert in the field who places Newton's writings in their historical and scientific context. A comprehensive collection of Newton's papers and fragmentary writings outside of his Principia and the Opticks. A small concavity to the spine, a few grey flecks to the top textblock; jacket with two tape repairs to its reverse.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1982. First American edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-150 pp. Grey cloth with navy lettering on the spine. Kripke's second book, an exposition of Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox and solutions to it. Kripke's book has been influential since its publication and continues to be an important work for philosophers of language and those interested in the later Wittgenstein. A name on the free front endpaper, a brown discoloration on the rear free endpaper; jacket toned on its front and rear panels with a touch of edge wear.

Boston: The Beacon Press (1957), 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, 1-166 pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A critical examination of historicism, the view that there is a theory of historical development that would serve as a basis to foretell the future of human society. A lovely example of one of Popper's best-known books. A name on the verso of the free front endpaper; toning to the spine panel.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1909. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-lxiv, [1]-368, [1]-iv (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Marron publisher's cloth with borders in blind on both boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Kant. Translated into English by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. With a brief biography of Kant. A few leaves unopened at the top textblock. A contemporary name on the verso of the free front endpaper, one leaf with a few pencil underlines, and a small tear to a few leaves in the pageblock.

Princeton: Princeton University Press [2012], 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo. [9], x-xv, [2], 2-142, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a few black and white photographs, with Turing's thesis reproduced here in facsimile. Edited and introduced by Andrew W. Appel.

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000), 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [9], x-xix, [2], 2-246, [6] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Stroud's work in philosophy was as varied as his personal talents. His scholarship on Hume and Wittgenstein was highly influential on the field. This volume collects pieces from Stroud focused on epistemology (with essays on scepticism, comprehension, and epistemology and mind in the Kantian tradition).

[London]: Duckworth (1972), 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/very near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 1-122 pp. Teal cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £3.25 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece (detail from Firenze's "The Wisdom of Thomas Aquinas" showing Aristotle and Cicero) and with one full-page illustration from Romberch's Congestorium Artificiosae Memoriae. Slater 907. A translation into English of Aristotle's De Memoria intended for philosophers along with interpretive commentary, notes, and essays on memory and mnemonic techniques. Light rubbing to the cloth and a private person's stamp on the free front endpaper.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [9], x, [2], 1-180 pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $29.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket.

New York: St. Martin's Press (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 1-256 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Buckley. Light wear to the extremities, overall sharp.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 2-113, [3] pp. Grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. A touch of sunning to the spine panel, else Fine.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 9 vol. 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Half contemporary leather over marbled boards with gilt rules on lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Volumes four and seven with a few full-page illustrations. This set was issued in nine volumes, all nine volumes are present. An attractive set of the major works of Thomas H. Huxley, an accomplished biologist and prolific author. Huxley is best remembered for being an early proponent of agnosticism, and for being an outspoken defender of Darwin's theory of evolution. A few of the spines with light rubbing. Volumes one, four, five, and seven with two to three address labels on their free front endpapers.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Bradford Book / The MIT Press [1995], 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 4-329, [3] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. With several in-text black and white diagrams and illustrations. With the Stereopticon 707 device in the rear board's pocket. An exploration of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, epistemology, and of other philosophical disciplines as they relate to the human brain. The pageblock warped, likely from the stereo viewer at the rear of the volume, a small push to the spine; jacket with just a touch of edge wear.

Boston / New York: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Light green cloth with twin gold rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gold rules and both gold lettering and black lettering on the spine. Part of The Studies in Communication Series. Slater 742. With a card signed by Quine laid in. The card measures 7.5 c.m. x 12.5 c.m. W.V.O. Quine was a distinguished philosopher who spent the majority of his career at Harvard and was widely recognized as one of the leading analytic philosophers of his era. A student of Carnap, Quine was an extraordinarily influential analytic philosopher, known for propagating the Verification Theory of Meaning, empiricism, and the examination of philosophical problems using scientific principles. Word and Object explores how human language affects ontology and our objective… Leer más

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [4], v-xix, [2], 2-204 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 37s 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with in-text diagrams, several of them in color. Edited by G. H. von Wright, Rush Rhees, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe (original German text on the versos, English translation on the rectos). Lapointe, 6. Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, and he did ground-breaking work in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and in philosophy of mind. This book is the second of Wittgenstein's posthumous works to be published (following Philosophical Investigations) and is a compilation of notes concerned with issues in the philosophy of mathematics written during the period of 1937-1944. Jacket with a chip to its spine panel, a small archival tape repair on its reverse, and… Leer más

Ithaca: Cornell University Press (1969), 1969. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 1-203, [3] pp. Blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Part of Cornell's Contemporary Philosophy series, edited by Max Black. A name on the free front endpaper; jacket is price-clipped with very light soiling to its front panel.

New York / Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Small 4to. [4], v-xi, [1], 1-290, [2] pp. Yellow cloth with lettering in blind on the front board, red lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Hilbert in 1937, and with twelve double-sided full-page black and white photographs from Hilbert's life. With a receipt from 1970 documenting the purchase of this book and with a note between a former private owner and a borrower of this copy, expressing gratitude from one to the other for the chance to read this book. An informative biography of the revolutionary mathematician. A slight lean and a name stamp on the front pastedown; jacket with a nick and a small tape repair on its front panel.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1991), 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-x, 1-182 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Dennis M. Arnold. Yourgrau's volume explores the published and unpublished writings of Gödel, specifically his works on time and questions regarding its metaphysical status. The nature and meaning of time and its implications on existence in general are explored here in-depth. Light foxing to the textblock.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [2], 1-263, [7] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Tim Jones. The boards' edges with a few bumps, light foxing to the textblock; jacket with a small closed tear on its rear fold and two creases on its front flap.

[London]: Viking (1986), 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [6], vii, [3], 3-293, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £16.95 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by Robert Hurley. Published posthumously. A small discoloration on the fore-edge; a tiny dampspot on the jacket's reverse.

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007), 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-448, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and two gold rules on the spine. Maddy's wide-ranging study of science, knowledge, and truth which brings together elements from several different fields of research in analytic and modern philosophy. The rear board slightly bowed, a tiny push to the top textblock; jacket a touch foxed on the bottom edge of its rear flap.