Clouds Clocks Approach Problem Rationality by Popper Karl Raimund (4 results)

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for some light foxing alond spine, on front wrap, and prev. owner name on inside of front wrap. Internally fine, and apperently unread. this is the Arthur Compton Memorial Lecture, presented on April 21st, 1965, at Washington University. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. vii, 38 pp. Original printed wrappers. Very Good+. Inscribed: 'To John/a tribute to the memory of/his father,/from Karl/Denver, May 31st, 1966.'. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. vii, 38 pp. Original printed wrappers. Very Good+. Inscribed: 'To Hakon Töernebohm [sic]/from Karl R. Popper/Denver, June 1966.'. Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION, pp. vii, 38, crown 8vo original stapled white wrappers with a portrait of Compton to front, text to same printed in brown, staples slightly rusted, a couple of very faint spots and some light dustsoiling to covers, very good. Inscribed by the author on the half-title: 'To Alistair Milne, with kind regards from Karl Popper, January 1971'. The recipient was a philosopher, based then at Queen's University, Belfast, and working in the areas of English Idealism and political philosophy. An important lecture, subsequently collected in 'Objective Knowledge' (1978), in which Popper, with reference to a North American tradition, and particularly the work of Charles Sanders Peirce and Compton himself - who provides 'Compton's problem', of how external events and engagements affect one's actions, which the author assesses in relation to the classical Cartesian 'problem' of the co-working of body and mind and its impact on human behaviour and will - proposes the need to formulate a 'new theory of evolution, and a new model of the organism'.