Search Results: Philosophy from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Clarks Summit, PA: Society for Animal Rights, Inc., 1980 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, red paper-covered boards, gilt titles on front board & spine, cancel slip updating Cataloging in Publication data tipped onto copyright page, xvi, 240 pp, footnotes, three bibliographies, index. Owner's name on ffep, else fine. DJ lightly rubbed, spine sunned; in Brodart archival cover. In addition to Salt's bibliographies from the 1892 and 1928 editions, this edition contains a new bibliography by Charles S. Magel, a list of works by Salt, a new preface by Peter Singer, and brief biographical notes on Salt, Magel, and Singer. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Thus. . Near Fine/VG+. 21 X 14½ cm.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter green-grey cloth, boards covered with subtly patterned decorative paper, black titles on spine, xiii, 318 pp, footnotes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From Chapter 1: "It is the intention of this book to develop a theory of the nature of art, and of the role of art in human life; and to give lodgment to this account within a yet more general theory of man and of man's status in the universe." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Cleveland, OH: Corday & Gross Co., 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Foreword by J. C. Hunsacker. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, illustrated endpapers, 125 pp, 22 line drawings and 4 four-color charts by Rockwell Kent, tipped-in gravure-printed photo of author (as issued). Titles mostly rubbed off spine, spine ends rubbed, boards lightly spotted, edges dusty. Litchfield was employed by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for most of his adult life, starting as a chemical engineer and eventually progressing to chairman of the board. Among other achievments, he was responsible for Goodyear's airship (blimp & Zeppelin) development. This well-illustrated volume contains his reflections on personal and business philosophy. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. . VG/No dj. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind device on front board, xix, 705 pp, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Spine sunned, titles faded, a few spots, corner bumped. From the introduction: "The religionists of the Counter-Renaissance (the leaders of the early Reformation) turn with an exclusive enthusiasm to faith, repudiating reason as the 'devil's harlot.' Its scientists are radical empiricists, pursuing the natural truths they can discover through observation and experiment, and going to the extreme of almost totally neglecting the role of hypothesis in scientific calculation. In like manner, its historical, political and ethical writers largely reject the traditional concepts of 'natural law' and innate justice, and give new and almost exclusive value to the evidence of 'fact' and pragmatic experience." Shipping weight 3 lbs..… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, foil titles on spine, xviii, 269 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. How the theory of knowledge is affected by taking into account human instinct. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Company WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles, attractive gilt, red, & blind floral decorations, top edge gilt, printed on machine-made laid paper, title page appears to be a cancel, ix, 334 pp. Extremities rubbed, ends of joints beginning to fray, edges soiled, smudges to margins, leaf carrying pp 325-6 torn out & tipped back in (a repair, not a cancel). Rand, McNally reprinted this book a number of times, using a variety of bindings; this design is unusually attractive. No date, contains only the 1879 preface, so maybe about 1890, but binding looks more like 1900. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . Fair/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with white & copper titles, xiii, 386 pp, glossary, index. This book is a general introduction to "traditional logic, modern symbolic logic, and induction." Contents: logic of categorical sentences; logic of truth functions; monadic quantification; general quantification; fallacies; inductive reasoning; applying logical principles; the philosopy of logic. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ed, 3rd ptg. . Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Marshall, MN: Venti Amati, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Joint publisher Portals Press, Tuscaloosa. Full green cloth, gilt titles on spine, xi, 130, [1] pp, chapter notes, bio-bibliographies, index. Warmly inscribed by author on front paste-down and dated in the year of publication. Slight rubbing to corners, else fine. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Chicago & London: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark green ribbed cloth with blind quad fillet on front board, gilt titles on front board & spine, xiii, 343, [5] pp, index. Rear hinge starting, top corner of one leaf slightly chipped, else VG, moderate rubbing to extremities. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG-/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, red endpapers, xi, 501 pp, notes, bibliography, index. Bottom edge of boards sunned, a few dog-eared leaves, else fine. DJ spine slightly sunned, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Everdell examines the work and legacy of novel thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in mathematics (Cantor, Dedekind, Frege); physics (Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein); art (Seurat, Picasso, Kandinsky); poetry (Whitman, Rimbaud, Laforgue); neurology (Cajal); concentration camps (Weyler); psychology (Freud); genetics (de Vries); philosophy (Russell, Husserl); cinema (Porter); drama (Strindberg); music (Schoenberg); fiction (Joyce); as well as a few significant times & places. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . VG+/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1871 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Purple cloth with paper label on spine, sewn two-on on sunk cords, ix, 414, 24 pp. Cloth and paper are both brittle, have broken in places, spine faded, boards & edges soiled, sewing loose in places. Lectures on Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, and Utilitarianism delivered before the Royal Institution in London. Compare to print-on-demand facsimile of the American edition at $139.. First Edition. . Fair/No dj. 18½ X 13 cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, x, 234 pp, notes, index. At first glance appears new, but closer inspection reveals some rubbing to bottom edges of boards. DJ has slight rubbing to extremities & a puncture in rear joint; in Brodart archival cover. Critical analysis of the works of Francis Bacon and their place in the development of modern Western thought. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (international 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, 319 pp. Boards faded and a bit rubbed about edges, a small coffee stain on top edge. DJ has edge wear and few 1-2 cm closed tears along top edge; in Brodart archival cover. Collection of essays written over a period of about 30 years, translated by Norman Denny.. First US Edition. . VG+/VG. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: S. A. Russell, 1956 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Natural linen-covered boards, 390 pp, bibliography, notes, index. Spine ends turned in, lightly worn & soiled. DJ worn at edges with a few small snags & tears, lightly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. From the preface: "It now seems clear to me that nowhere can the social roots of philosophy be more sharply seen and more firmly apprehended than when one is dealing with the origins of Western philosophy among the Greeks. This book contains, therefore, the body of information which in my judgement a student should have if he is to approach Plato as a historical figure." The second edition adds a chapter on the Academy and the later dialogues to the otherwise unaltered text of the first edition. The publishers can hardly be accused of false modesty for their encomium on the DJ: "The most penetrating critical re-examination of Plato's Republic that has appeared in… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Olive cloth, gilt titles on spine, 432 pp, notes, bibliography, index. Faint damp stain to tail of spine, gift inscription on recto of ffep. DJ has a matching damp stain to tail of spine, spine ends rubbed; in Brodart archival cover. Extensively annotated overview of the history of ethics "from the early Greeks to the present time." Contents: Graeco-Roman theories (early Greek eudaimonism; teleological eudaimonism: Aristotle; Hellenistic ethiccs: stoic, epicurean, and neoplatonic); patristic & medieval theories (patristic & early medieval ethics; medieval Jewish & Moslem ethics; right reason theories); early modern ethics: 1450-1750 (humanist ethics in the renaissance; British egoism & its reactions; rationalistic ethics on the continent); modern theories (utilitarian & subjectivist ethics in Britain; German idealistic ethics;… Read More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter brown cloth, drab paper-covered boards with gilt title on spine & blind device on front board, 224 pp. Spine ends & corners beginning to fray, else very good, signature of Rabbi Abert G. Minda on fpd. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Early printing. . G+/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

Minneapolis: Archimedean Point Press, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiv, 396 pp. Corners & spine ends rubbed, some staining to top edge, underlining or highlighting on a few pages. Contents: validity; counter-examples; definition; and, or, & not; the conditional and the biconditional; truth trees; fallacies; predicate logic; identity.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth, gilt titles on spine, red & blue titles & dec. on boards, red endpapers, [ix], 238 pp, index. Bottom corners bumped, spine ends rumpled. DJ worn & chipped at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Professor Weiss examines the several arts in the light of the type of reality they create. Architecture, sculpture, and painting, he argues, make new substantial spaces; musical compositions, stories, and poetry create new substantial times; and musical performances, the theatre, and the dance produce new substantial modes of becoming. Each of these is self-sufficient at the same time that it represents the texture and something of the nature of ultimate existence in its bearing on the destiny of man." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 22 X 16 cm.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1940 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light blue pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xii, 13-392, [16] pp, bibliography, index. Extremities rubbed, titles partially rubbed off spine, small spot of blue paint on bottom edge, owner's name on ffep. History of philosophy from a (Protestant) Christian perspective. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 19½ X 14 cm.

New York: The Odyssey Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth, foil titles on spine & blue titles on front board, ix, 470 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. Owner's name on fpd, else fine. Anthology of essays by philosophers grouped into four general headings: the meaning of probability; problems of confirmation theory; simplicity; and the justification of induction. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.