Offprints of works by famous philosophers, usually the first separate printings of these essays and issued in small press runs for reviewers, colleagues and friends. From the collections of Wilfrid Sellars, Adolf Grunbaum and other prominent philosophers.
Paperback. All very good in wraps, a few with "Körner" writtenin pencil by Sellars on their covers. Körner was a specialist in Kant but authored several books including on the philosophy of mathematics. Sellars was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the 20th century. Includes: On Empirical Continuity (1962).....
Offprint from "Melanges Alexandre Koyré" from 1964. Stapled wraps, paginated 307-334, very good. "Kuhn" in pencil on front cover, probably in the hand of Wilfrid Sellars (part of a collection of offprints purchased from his estate).
Paperback. All very good in wraps, light wear and soil, "The Justification of Induction" heavily marked up by Sellars.
Paperback. All very good in wraps, one inscribed on cover, others with stamps of "with best wishes, John Ladd." Ladd is an emeritus professor of Philosophy at Brown and wrote extensively on political and legal philosophy, ethics, biomedical ethics, etc. Sellars was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the.....
Paperback. All very good in wraps, a few with "Lambert" written in pencil on covers in Sellars' hand. Lambert is a philosopher who writes extensively on "free logic." Sellars was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the 20th century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by philosopher Carl G. Hempel, who is cited in text! First edition, 1976, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 229pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and.....
Paperback. Generally very good, with light wear and soil, occasionally with "Madden" in pencil on cover pages in Sellars' hand. Includes: Hume and the Fiery Furnace (1971), Reflections on Civil Disobedience (1970, with Peter H. Hare), Problems in the Philosophy of Mind (1966), Peirce and Current Issues in the Philosophy.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. This copy belonged to Carl Hempel. Inscribed by Kessen and Mandler on the front flyleaf. First edition, 1959. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 301 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, a bit of soiling or.....
Paperback. Generally very good in wraps, occasional soil, tanning and light wear. Martin was part of the first wave of American analytical philosophers, and developed a "first order" theory of logic that was very successful. Although nowhere stated, these offprints are from the collection of Wilfrid Sellars. Includes: On Types.....
Paris: Felix Alcan / Hachette, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 1894, First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth, leather title label, original wraps bound in. Alcan sticker on front wrap, but Hachette noted as publisher on title page. Pencil signature of famous Zionist and sociologist Max Nordau on the upper margin of the.....
Paperback. Generally very good, some with "McCloskey" in pencil on cover pages in Sellars' hand. McCloskey was a moral philosopher, known for his exploration of "extreme" utilitarianism and for his view that considerations of evil preclude the possibility of theism. Includes: Toward an Objectivist Ethic (1962), Ethics, Metaphysics and Sociology.....
Paperback. All very good with minimal wear and tanning. Includes: Ethics and Politics (1961), The Flight from Certainty and the Quest for Precision (1964), Philosophy and the Development of Scientific Theories (1966), Principles and Consequences (1959), Being, Existence, and That Which Is (1960), The Ethics of International Influence (1960), Mankind.....
Paperback. Generally very good with minor wear, some with "McMullin" in pencil in Sellars' hand on cover pages. Includes: Philosophies of Nature (1969), Realism in Modern Cosmology (1955), History of the Notion of Efficient Causality (1957), Recent Work in Philosophy of Science (1966), The Horizons of Science (1971), From Matter.....
Paperback. Generally very good in wraps, and although nowhere stated, from the collection of analytical philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. Includes: Aristotle's Unmoved Movers (1946), Plotinus and Magic (1953), Ambiguity in Heraclitus (1953), Form and Content in Plato's Philosophy (1947), Hamann et les Dialogues de Hume (nd), Review of Norman DeWitt's Epicurus.....
London: John W. Parker, 1859. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, the first two volumes published 1859; the third volume published in 1867 by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. 8vo, uniformly bound in early 20th century three-quarter orange-brown crushed levant morocco, gilt, marbled boards, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, pp. vi, 474.....
Wien: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by both editors (Haller & Rutte) to colleague Carl G. Hempel on the front flyleaf. First edition, 1981. Hardcover, 527 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, some wear to the covers.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by O'Brien to Carl G. Hempel, who is cited in text! First edition, 1975, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 188pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean.....
Paperback. All very good in wraps, one signed by Sellars on the cover sheet. Pap was a very important analytical philosopher who died at age 37 in 1959 of kidney disease. Includes: Logic and the Synthetic A Priori (1950), Das Leib-Seele-Problem in der Analytischen Philosophie (1954), A Note on Logic.....
Lancaster: 1950. Paperback. Wraps, very good, signed on cover by Sellars in pencil and with numerous pencil notes and marks to Pap's article.
Paperback. Generally very good, occasional light wear and soil. Includes: Autobiography of an Aesthetics (1970, along with Elmer Duncan's bibliography of the works of Pepper), A Convergence Theory of Similarity (1937, inscribed by the author with his initials, also ownership signature of Herbert Feigl, who might have pencilled "needs peppering!".....
The Review of Metaphysics, 1952. Paperback. Stapled wraps, very good, with Sellars' signature in pencil on cover.
Honolulu: Philosophy East and West, 1954. Paperback. Offprinst from Philosophy East and West, Oct. 1954 and April-July 195, stapled wraps, very good, a few pages each.
Paperback. Generally very good, some with "Quine" written in pencil in Sellars' hand on front covers. Includes: The Scope and Language of Science (1957), On the Consistency of New Foundations (1951, some wear to corners), On an Application of Tarski's Theory of Truth (1951), Logic, Symbolic (1957 offprint from Encyclopedia.....
(Boston): American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1951. Paperback. Offprint from Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 80, No. 1, July, 1951. 46-88 pp. Stapled wraps, with names of authors in pencil in the hand of Wilfrid Sellars, from whose collection this came.
Paperback. Mainly very good, some stamped "with the author's compliments." Rescher and Sellars were in the same department of Pitt's History and Philosophy of Science department, and both are among the most important analytic philosophers of the 20th century. Includes: On the Logic of Existence and Denotation (1959), The Revolt.....