Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics.
de POPPER, Karl
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London: Hutchinson,, 1982. Presentation copy to his fellow philosopher First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author to his friend, the philosopher Anthony Meredith Quinton (1925-2010), inscribed on the front free endpaper "To Tony from Karl November 1982". Quinton taught philosophy at Oxford from 1955 onwards, joining A. J. Ayer's seminal discussion group there. He was firmly in the Anglo-American analytic school, a staunch empiricist, and no fan of the continental philosophers. His three key works were published in the 1970s: The Nature of Things (1973), a bold defence of materialism ranging from metaphysics to the theory of value; Utilitarian Ethics (1973), defending the utilitarian notion that morality consists in promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number; and The Politics of Imperfection (1978), on the secular and religious traditions of English conservative thought. Elected president of Trinity College, Oxford in 1978, Quinton became more involved in public affairs, and acted as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher's government, for which he was rewarded with a life peerage in 1982. Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics was the third in Popper's three-part postscript to his first published book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1936), a postscript decades in its conclusion, and which grew into a fully-fledged work which actually exceeded in length The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Top edge lightly soiled else a fine copy, in near-fine jacket, lightly toned with minor peripheral creasing.
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