Alfalsafat Alwujudia / Existential Philosophy [in Arabic]
Beirut: 1958. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear, pages tanning. In Arabic.
Philosophy
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Berichte und Abhandlungen, Band 2
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1996. Hardcover, 396 pp., clean unmarked text, a Mint copy, still in original shrink-wrap though the shrink-wrap is starting to tear. Text in German.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Jahrbuch 1995
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1995. Hardcover, 558 pp., clean unmarked text, a Mint copy, still in original shrink-wrap. Text in German.
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Jahrbuch 1996
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1996. Hardcover, 454 pp., clean unmarked text, a Mint copy, still in original shrink-wrap. Text in German.
Rights in Moral Lives: A Historical-Philosophical Essay
University Of California Press, 1988. Hardcover. 1988 Hardcover 8vo. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Contents are clean and unmarked.
The Oldest Biography of Spinoza
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1927. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1927. Hardcover. Cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 196pp. Frontis portrait. Ex-Library. With library stamp on front pastedown and dedication. Very Good. Rubbing to spine-ends and corners, offsetting to endpapers.
From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1982, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 422pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with edgewear to spine foot and bottom corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG with rubbing, edgewear that includes tears and.....
Le ThËme de la Mort dans la poÈsie arabe des origines ‡ la fin du IIIe/Ixe siËcle; Faculte des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines; 6e SÈrie: Philosophie - Litterature, Volume X
Tunis: Publications de l'Universite de Tunis, 1977. First printing. Paperback. Softbound, 402 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, soil/discoloration to the page-edges and to the covers, a bit of rubbing/wear to the covers at the tips and edges, inscription in ink on the first blank. Text in French...
4 offprints of articles, from the collection of Wilfrid Sellars: Rudolf Carnap (1966), Explanation (1977?), Theoretical Models (1965), Models, Analogies, and Theories
Paperback. 4 original offprints, very good, light wear and soil, "Explanation" with a note in Sellars' hand. Sellar was a major American philosopher who was the first to synthesize American pragmatism with Continental analytical philosophy and Vienna Circle logical positivism. He ranks with Carnap, Hempel, Salmon and Grunbaum as among.....
3 articles: 1) Macrotheories and Microtheories (offprint from Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science IV, 1973, inscribed), 2) Models, Analogies, and Theories (offprint from the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 31 no. 4 October 1964); 3) Typescript of an article entitled 'The Object of Explanation' 49 pp plus 3 pp footnotes.
Paperback. From the collection of Adolf Grünbaum, the first article inscribed 'For Adolf, with warm regards, Peter' and the others unsigned. The typescript (a photocopy) appeared in Stephen Korner's anthology 'Explanation' in 1975.
Concepts of Science, A Philosophical Analysis
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. Hardbound. First Edition. Hardbound cloth octavo; 266 pp. Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket; shows light wear and soil; hinges good; clean, umarked text. Unclipped dust jacket shows light shelf wear and discoloration/lightening, especially at spine and top edge; light rubbing at.....
Law and Explanation - An Essay in the Philosophy of Science
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1971. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 168pp. Near Fine. Minor shelfwear, occasional underlining / marginal notation in ink. Wesley C. Salmon's copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown Salmon was a noted philosopher, and a protege.....
The Nature of Explanation
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1983, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 385pp., not illustrated. Book good with mild edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, text has some mild underlining and marginalia, mostly in erasable pencil. DJ good+ with rubbing.....
The Nature of Explanation
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. First printing. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, underlining to the preface, 385pp.
The Nature of Explanation
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First printing. Paperback. octavo, paper wraps, book is in good condition with creasing and discolorization to the wraps, book has previous owners signature on the front flyleaf and ink notes to the preface and TOC.
Philosophie de Francois Bacon
Paris: Felix Alcan, 1890. Hardcover. 1890 edition, French text. 437 pp. Hardcover, 3/4 leather with purple pebbled boards, 5 raised bands and gilt title at spine, gilt upper text block. Light ex-library markings, from the Library of Trinity College. Leather at spine is rubbed and faded; rest just edgeworn. Pages.....
Philosophy and the Modern Mind: A Philosophical Critique of Modern Western Civilization
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Hardcover. 232 pp. A near fine copy in brown cloth. Dust jacket is fine. Contents clean, text is bright and unmarked. PO's neat sig. on front pastedown and fly leaf. A tight copy.
On the Nature and Purpose of Measurement, 1966 offprint from Adolf Grunbaum collection
Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1966. Wraps. Offprint from Synthese no. 16 (1966), Symposium on the Nature of Measurement, very good in wraps. Paginated 125-169. Although nowhere stated, from the collection of Adolf Grunbaum.
Contemporary American Philosophy: Personal Statements, Vol. I (This volume only)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Volume one only! Signed by Morris R. Cohen, who contributes chapter "The Faith of a Logician"! Presumed first edition, 1930, hardcover with maroon cloth boards, octavo, 450pp., frontispiece in b&w, otherwise not illustrated. Book good with rubbing and mild edgewear, binding.....
Meaning and Interpretation: Lectures Delivered Before the Philosophical Union of the University of California 1948-1949
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950. Paperback. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book is ex-library with number to spine, plate and deaccession stamp to front inner panel, blind stamp and sticker; otherwise wraps are toned and rubbed, edgeworn with small tears, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently.....
Essays in Metaphysics: University of California Publications in Philosophy, Volume 5
Berkeley: University of California, 1924. Paperback. 1924. Paper wrap 8vo, 220pp. Waving to volume, foxing to edges at wear at spine hinges. Some pages remain attached at top. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo.
Studies in the Problem of Norms: lectures Delivered before the Philosophical Union University of california, 1924-1925
Berkeley: University of California, 1925. Paperback. 206 pp. Softcover. Very Good- copy: small pencil mark at front wrap. Spine worn, wraps chipped at head and foot. Pages age-toned, but text is bright and unmarked. Pages uncut. Volume 7 in the University of California Publications in Philosophy series.
Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement. Describing, in a Familiar and Easy Manner, the Principal Phenomena of Nature; and Showing That They All Co-Operate in Displaying the Goodness, Wisdom, and Power of God--Volume III (This volume only)
Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1807. First American edition. Hardcover. Volume three only! First American edition, 1807, hardcover with full-leather boards, octavo, 511pp., illustrated with nine fold out plates at rear. Book ex-library with only indications being two plates to front endpapers and a small stamp to rear pastedown; otherwise book.....
On the Genealogy of Color: A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis
New York: Routledge, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 2016, hardcover with paper boards, octavo, 140pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with rubbing and mild soil to boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Untersuchungen Zu Kants Physischer Geographie
Tuebingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1911. Paperback. First edition. Paperback large octavo; clean, unmarked text; German language original; 344 pp. Copy is Very Good Minus with edge and shelf wear, and noticible soil; bumping, tearing and chipping at edges, and spine head and foot with some loss; triangular tear, approx.....