What Is and What Ought To Be Done; An Essay on Ethics and Epistemology
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author to C.G. Hempel, first edition, 1981, hardcover, octavo, 131pp., not illustrated. Book fine, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with some rubbing, soil to back panel, light edge wear that includes a small closed tear to back bottom panel. Carl Gustav Hempel (affectionately known as “Peter” by friends and family) was a major twentieth-century philosopher, most notably in the field of logical empiricism. He is especially well-known for his articulation of the Deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the Raven paradox, which highlights the problem of induction. Hempel was involved in the Berlin Circle (and consequently the Vienna Circle) of philosophers (David Hilbert, Richard Von Mises, Rudolph Carnap, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Kurt Grelling) before fleeing to the US in the 1930s where he taught at the University of Chicago, City College of New York, Yale, Princeton, and finally the University of Pittsburgh. Fine / Very good+. Item #C00003751
ISBN: 019502916x
Price: $25.00