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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. - First Edition - Covers worn and rubbed w/ corners and spine ends bumped - Endpapers tanned and foxed - Edges of text block tanned and foxed w/ bottom edge smudged w/ several small ink stains - - Dustwrapper worn and stained w/ edges rubbed, corners chipped and torn and many small scratches to front and back - Spine tanned and stained w/ ends badly chipped and torn - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 476 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. Binding shaken. Front hinge cracked. A00017373.

Brown Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. 476 pp. including Woodger bibliography at end. Touch of wear to corners and to some areas along bottom edges, no marks no fraying no names. DJ with touch of wear at corners, chipped up to 3/16" along top of spine, also a 1/4" V-chip at top of rear panel with a 1" closed tear and associated wrinkling.

Frontispiece (portrait of J. H. Woodger), vii, 476 pp. Original cloth. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Woodger was "a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influential to the philosophy of biology in the twentieth century. Karl Popper, the prominent philosopher of science [Popper is a contributor to this volume], claimed 'Woodger . . . influenced and stimulated the evolution of the philosophy of science in Britain and in the United States as hardly anybody else' . . . . He was a member of the Theoretical Biology Club along with Joseph Needham, Conrad Hal [C. H.] Waddington, John Desmond Bernal, and Dorothy Wrinch. Karl Popper described the club as 'one of the most interesting study circles in the field of the philosophy of science' ". This Festschrift volume for Woodger has many illustrious contributors: Morton Beckner, Peter Alexander, W. van Orman Quine, N. Rashevsky, H. F. Blum, Evert Willem Beth, Robert Rogers, John G. Kemeny, R. M. Martin, Karl R. Popper, Frederic B. Fitch, Czeslaw Lejewski, F. T. C. Harris, John Tyler Bonner, W. Mays, R. C. Lewontin, Olaf Helmer, B. Dunham & R. Fridshal & J. H. North, Marian Przelecki, Paul G. 'Espinasse, Heinz Herrmann, John Davison, R. F. J. Withers, Abe Sklar, Leigh van Valen. Aristid Lindenmayer.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, vii, 476 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Hinshelwood (foreword), Quine, Rashevsky, Popper, J. T. Bonner, Lewontin, et. al. Pp. 473-6 = Woodger's bibliography.