Form Strategy Science Studies Dedicated by Gregg Harris (12 results)

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

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Cloth. Condition: Gut. 476 Seiten Guter Zustand/ Good Ex-Library. Stamped edges. ha1044823 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Men of science are sometimes mistrustful of or at least impatient with philosophy. One of them, himself no stranger to hard thought, was one day heard to comment on his colleagues in another faculty and on their propensity to indulge in what he called 'all this nonsense about thinking'. Against this may perhaps be set a meeting of philosophers who decided to discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics. When asked sardonically by a scientist whether they had disproved it, one of the philosophers replied: 'No, we have concluded that it is not so much false as meaning less' . This curious appearance of cross purposes reflects something more than mere captiousness or misunderstanding. As to the 'nonsense about thinking', it is perfectly true that an excessive formalisation of argu ments does not usually assist clear thinking very much. Plenty of people would be nonplussed by a formal logical exercise of the type: all A is B, Cis B: is C therefore A But equate A to Frenchman, C to Germans and B to Europeans, and tht:y would never run the slightest risk of going astray.

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Brown Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Vii, 476 Pp. Hardcover, First Printing, 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, Would Be Near Fine Except 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.

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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.

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Hardcover. 476pp. Small name stamp, else very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus dust jacket.

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