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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Publisher's card wraps. Signed by philosopher Thomas W. Simon on the Contents page over the title of his article "A Cybernetic Analysis of Goal-Directedness." . Spine and edges of covers lightly sunned, else fine. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxiv, 312 pp. Signed by Author.…

Original publisher's brown cloth hardback, title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: VOL. 1: xxij, 224pp., 19 contributions. VOL. 2: xxij, 902pp., 22 contributions. With notes & references. Fine copies- complete set..

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. - From the library of philosopher Gerd Buchdahl w/ his bookplate to front pastedown endpaper - Corners and spine ends bumped and covers are a little rubbed and faded - Edges of text block toned and lightly foxed - endpapers lightly toned and foxed - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - xiv/533 pages. …

Condition: gut. XXIV, 312 S., Abb., 23 cm, Einband leicht berieben. Sprache: Englisch.

Condition: very good. East Lansing : Philosophy of Science Association, 1978. Orig. cloth binding. 313 pp. Library stamp. Contents : Part 1. History of Philosophy of Science. -- Perception and Primary Qualities. NancyMaull. -- The Development of Kant's Conception of Scientific Explanation. EdwardMacKinnon. -- John Stuart Mill, John Herschel, and the 'Probability of Causes'. John V.Strong. -- Part 2. Philosophy of Physics -- Non-Local Hidden Variable Theories and Bell's Inequality. JeffreyBub, and VandanaShiva. -- The Only Real Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics. NancyCartwright. -- A Universal Axiomatization of Kinematical Theories. CarloGiannoni. -- Part 3. Observation and Theory -- The Interplay between Theory and Observation in the Solar Model of Hipparchus and Ptolemy. KathleenOkruhlik. -- Theory-Ladenness and Theory Comparison. William B.Jones. -- Observationality: Quine and the Epistemological Nihilists. P. WilliamBechtel & EricStiffler. --Analyticity without an Observational-Theoretical Distinction. Mark G.Tamthai. -- Part 4. Case Studies with Applications to the Philosophy of Science. -- The Role of Psychology in Functional Localization Research. Barbara V.E. Klein. -- Scientific Problems and Constraints. ThomasNickles. -- Discoveries and the Emergence of New Fields in Science. LindleyDarden -- Part 5. Explanation. -- Explanation and Subsumption. RobertCummins. -- Reasons, Causes, and Empathetic Understanding. J.K.Derden,Jr. -- Approximative Explanation. T.R.Girill. -- Part 6. Aspects of Rationality. -- Four Contributions Values Can Make to the Objectivity of Social Science. Sandra G.Harding. -- Four Basic Concepts of Medical Science. CarolineWhitbeck. -- Why Astrology is a Pseudoscience. Paul R.Thagard. -- Rhetoric and Scientific Rationality. Maurice A.Finocchiaro. -- Part 7. Quantum Logic. -- The Metalogic of Quantum Logic. PeterMittelstaedt. -- A Role for Categories in the Foundations of Quantum Theory. David GeoffreyHoldsworth. -- Only If Quanta Had Logic. James H.McGrath. -- Part 8. Applications of Statistical Ideas. -- On The Likelihood Principle and a Supposed Antinomy. BarryLoewer, RobertLaddaga, & RogerRosenkrantz. -- Belief and the Incremental Confirmation of One Hypothesis Relative to Another. AndreMirabelli. -- Salmon, Statistics, and Backwards Causation. DavidPapinL209eau. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780917586064. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY. …