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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Na. 1st Edition. DESCRIPTION: Three quarter brown leather binding with brown cloth boards. Four ridged spine with faux studs to leather margins. Inscription to ffep from M.R. Rendall to J.R. Lucas (see provenance). Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners and edges with light wear to spine ends. Tightly bound with toned intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Lightly age pages with occasional mark or smudge DJ Condition: Na. Pages 216. Size: 8vo 19cm by 12cm. PROVENANCE: John Lucas & MJ Rendall - Presentation inscription. MONTAGUE RENDALL: Montague Rendall (1862-1950) was an Assistant Master at Winchester College, 1887-1889; Second Master, 1899-1911; Headmaster, 1911-1924. JOHN LUCAS: John Lucas was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. Studied first mathematics, then Greats (Greek, Latin, Philosophy and Ancient History), obtaining first class honours in both. He spent the 1957-58 academic year at Princeton University, studying mathematics and logic. For 36 years, until his 1996 retirement, he was a Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, and he remained an emeritus member of the University Faculty of Philosophy. He was a Fellow of the British Academy. Best known for his paper "Minds, Machines and G del," arguing that an automaton cannot represent a human mathematician, attempting to refute computationalism. Lucas wrote on the philosophy of mathematics, especially the implications of G dels incompleteness theorem, the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, the philosophy of science including two books on physics co-authored with Peter E. Hodgson, causality, political philosophy, ethics and business ethics, and the philosophy of religion. The son of a Church of England clergyman Lucas described himself as "a dyed-in-the-wool traditional Englishman." He had four children (Edward Lucas, Helen Lucas, Richard Lucas and Deborah Lucas) with Morar Portal, among them Edward Lucas, a former journalist at The Economist. AUTHOR: Adam Fox (1883-1977), Canon, was the Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford He was one of the first members of the literary group "Inklings" He was Oxford Professor of Poetry and later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey He was also warden of Radley College He was headmaster of the Radley College (1918-1924) Between 1938 and 1942 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry Later he became Canon of Westminster Abbey and he is buried there in Poets Corner During his time at Oxford, he wrote his long poem in four books "Old King Coel" It gets its name from King Cole, legendary British father of the Roman Empress Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine As Professor of Poetry, Fox advocated poetry which is intelligible to readers, and gives enough pleasure to be read again He was one of the first members of the "Inklings", a literary group which also included C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien In his 1945 Plato for Pleasure, he tried to introduce the general public to Plato Fox wished to make Plato well known among the English Classics once again and hoped that people would study the platonic dialogues, as well as the plays of Shakespeare His biography of William Ralph Inge, the theologian, philosopher and Dean of St Pauls Cathedral, was awarded the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize soon after its publication THE INKLINGS: The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J R R Tolkien at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949 The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy The best-known, apart from Tolkien, were C S Lewis, Charles Williams, and (although a Londoner) Owen Barfield.