Grene Majorie (7 results)

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Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. Reprint: "Merleau-Ponty and the Renewal of Ontology". Reprint from: The Review of Metaphysics, 29, 4, June 1976. The Review of Metaphysics, 1976, 605-625pp., good offprint, but it has been folded and unfolded with resulting marks, printed cover. The Presidential address from the meeting of the Metaphysical Society, 1976.…

Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. Reprint: "Straus's phenomenological psychology". Reprinted from: The Review of Metaphysics, 21, 1, Sept. 1967. Review of Metaphysics, 1967, 94-123pp., very good green stapled offprint, with printed cover a bit faded around edges.

Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. Knowledge, Belief and Perception. New Orleans: The Graduate School Tulane University, 1978, 20pp., stapled PAPERBACK, very good. printed card laid in: With the compliments of Professor Marjorie Grene and the Graduate School of Tulane University - with a couple of marks in ink on the card. Andrew W. Mellon Lectures, Fall, 1978.…

Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. Reprint: "People and other Animals". Reprint from: Philosophical Forum, 3, 1971. Philosophical Forum, 1971, 157-172pp., very good stapled offprint. INSCRIBED briefly: "Greetings / M.".

Grene, Majorie G., 1910-2009. The understanding of nature: essays in the philosophy of biology. Dordrecht ; Boston: D. Reidel, 1974, xii, 374pp., dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, good blue cloth, lightly rubbed edges, top foredge soiled, LAID IN: printed card Compliments of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. Boston studies in the philosophy of science v. 23CONTENTS: Causes.--Three aspects of perception.--Biology and the problem of levels of reality.--Reducibility.--Aristotle and modern biology.--Is genus to species as matter to form?--Two evolutionary theories.--Statistics and selection.--Biology and teleology.--Bohm's metaphysics and biology.--Darwin and philosophy.-- --Explanation and evolution.--On the nature of natural necessity.--On some distinctions between men and brutes.--The characters of living things. I: the biological philosophy of Adolf Portmann.--The characters of living things. II: The phenomenology of Erwin Straus.--The characters of living things. III: Helmuth Plessner's theory of organic models [sic].--People and other animals. 9789027704627 ISBN 9027704627.…

FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt copper lettering to spine, VG+ (minor scuffing to bases of hinges, minor foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (loose protective cover, light soiling to rear wrapper, minor creasing to front wrapper, minor scuffing to extrems, spine and hinges) (photos available on request).…