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THEORIES OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD: THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
by DUCASSE, Curt J. and MADDEN, Edward H. ed. Edward H. Madden
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine for age/Very Good. Dark cloth with blue spine lettering, virtually pristine. iv + 346; clean, tight and unmarked. Jacket with small clipping top fr. wraparound, clean, touch of rubbing to sp. ends and top outer corners, faint hint of fore-edge tanning, sp. will add protective sleeve when ordered. Apparently very scarce. Chapters on Renaissance astronomers, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Hume, Herschel, Whewell, J.S. Mill,...
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A REALIST THEORY OF SCIENCE
by BHASKAR, Roy
Hemel Hempstead UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1978. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Glossy soft-back covers near pristine but faint hint of sun-fading to spine region and top fr. edge. 284 pp.; 1991-dated sig., Oxford, top edge half-title (no fr. end-paper issued). Am a little suspicious of ostensible pub. date given p.o. acquisition date of 1991 clearly as a new copy. 1st ed. was 1977, this 2nd printing of 2nd ed. An important contribution to the philosophy of science debate raging at time of...
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THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER or, the Connection of Science and Philosophy with Religion (2 vols) + THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY BY THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE + THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION; or an Illustration of the Moral Laws of the Universe
by DICK, Thomas
Glasgow & London: William Collins 'Collins's Select Library'. Hardcover. Fine- for age/No Jacket (none issued). 11.5 Cms x 18 Cms. Blind-stamped cloth covers in various colours: 2 blue, 1 green, 1 maroon, all edges edges gilt. Only 'Diffusion of Knowledge' dated - 1871 - but clearly issued as a set so, although much re-issued by Collins I assume this dates from mid-late 1870s. An exceptionally good set with no obvious faults - all unmarked, clean and minimally worn inside and...
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A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
by HERSCHEL, John Frederick William
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, John Taylor, 1831. 1st Edition . Hardcover. G-VG for age. Issued in Dionysius Lardner's 'The Cabinet of Natural Philosophy' series. Brown boards with fairly recent light brown cloth spine, no lettering. 12 (pub. list) + viii, inc engraved t.p. dated 1830 with central fig. of Bacon + 372 + printed Lardner series t.p. dated 1831 with John Taylor as added publisher; 2 prev.owners' sigs to fr. paste-down dated 1869, 1971 plus very chipped and...
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THE LOGIC OF SOCIAL ENQUIRY
by GIBSON, Quentin
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960. 1st ed. . Dark Cloth. Fine/VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. x+214+16 (Int.Lib.Sociology & Social Reconstruction series list); virtually pristine - clean tight & unmarked in clean unworn covers; unclipped jacket barely worn but a few sruface marks - a faint horizontal line across lower front and some ingrained dust to back, butfront and spine otherwise bright. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as...
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THE ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS
by LIVINGSTON, Eric
London, Boston and Henley: Routlede & Kegan Paul, 1986. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine (-). 14 Cms x 22 Cms. xiii+241; virtually pristine in near similar unclipped jacket marred only by diagonal brown water stain across bottom front corner - this however only visible on wraparound and verso, so front of jacket looks fine, also no indication of cover being affected, two very tiny pits to front surface which it is obsessional to mention, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Jacket...
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THE SCIENCE QUESTION IN FEMINISM
by HARDING, Sandra
Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986. 1st ed. . p/back. Fine. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. 271 pp.; no significant flaws at all, clean, tight, unmarked and unworn. Important feminist analysis of the nature of scientific epistemology. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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GESAMMELTE SHCRIFTEN Band I. EINLEITUNG IN DIE GEISTESWISSENCHAFTEN Versuch einer Grundlegung fur das Studium der Gesellschaft und der Geschichte
by DILTHEY, Wilhelm
Stuttgart/ Gottingen: Teubner/ Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1959. 4., unveranderte Auflage (4th ed.) . Black Cloth. Fine/VG. 17 Cms x 24.5 Cms. 1st German edition published 1883. xx+429+(2, Dilthey list, inc titles of first 10 vols. of this set); book virtually pristine; unclipped jacket generally clean and minimally worn but very slight top edge rubbing, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Scarce in UK. First pioneering work by Dilthey on differentiating human and physical sciences, and on the...
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THE WISDOM OF GOD MANIFESTED IN THE WORKS OF CREATION In Two Parts
by RAY, John
London: Benj. Walford, 1709. 5th ed. Corrected enlarged. . Hardcover. VG- for age. 12.5 Cms x 19.5 Cms. Early tooled calf boards have slightly rubbed corners, are generally clean but have a rich patina of aging, with edges darker than central tooled panel, paneled spine, with recent gilt label, is much worn with narrow central surface crack and worn bottom end but is now quite secure after expert conservation which also involved refixing front board. f/piece engr.portrait+464 (unpag.to 16); the late...
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PRACTICING FEMINISMS, RECONSTRUCTING PSYCHOLOGY Notes on a Liminal Science
by MORAWSKI, Jill G
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. 1st ed. . Glossy p/b. Fine. 15 Cm x 22.5 Cm. unpag.prelims+276 pp., pristine bar trivial small bump top back corner. Scarce in UK. An important text by this creative American thinker. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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FIRST PRINCIPLES Sixth and Final Edition (revised by the author)
by SPENCER, Herbert Intro. by T.W.Hill
London: Watts Thinkers Library, 1937. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Issued as No.62 in series. series list+ f/piece+xxiv+550+(12, Watts list inc. a Spencer list), slipped in contemporary Rationalist Press Assocation flier.. In brown later format series covers with black 'Thinker' logo bottom fr.outer corner. Only obvious trivial fault is small dent to front cover fore-edge. 11cm x 16.5 cm
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AGAINST METHOD
by FEYERABEND, Paul
London and New York: Verso, 2008. 3rd Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. As New. Pristine copy. xiv + 279. 8th printing of 3rd, 1993 editions. For academic purposes the 3rd ed. is preferred as representing author's final position and has a very useful new Preface (in which, incidentally, he says Derrida 'can't even tell a story'). A brilliant, provocative and controversial work which played a major role in the post-Kihnian revolution in philosophy of science of the 1970s.14 cm x...
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THE SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
by MERTON, Robert K. ed. & intro. by Norman W. Storer
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1973. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine (-)/Good-VG. 15.5 Cms x 23 Cms. xxxi+605; small 1974-dated sig. of Steve Box top front endpaper otherwise a near pristine copy; unclipped jacket marred by widespread faint dust marks which resist erasure, thin chip across top spine otherwise minimally edge worn, will add protective sleeve when ordered. Despite jacket dust marks an excellent copy of this important collection of Meron's influential papers on sociology...
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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC MOVEMENT The Cunning of Unreason
by GELLNER, Ernest
Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 1996. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Book and text-block virtually pristine bar slight rubs to front outer corners. xviii + 241 2nd ed. of Gellner's classic philosophically informed critique of psychoanalysis 1st published in 1985, possibly a later reprint than 1996. 14 cm x 22.5 cm
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EXPLANATION IN THE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES. CONFRONTATIONS
by BORGER, Roger and CIOFFI, Frank (eds)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 1st ed. . Puce cloth. VG+/VG. 16 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xii+520, tinted top edge; prev.owner's green signature across front endpaper otherwise near pristine; unclipped jacket marred only by top edge rubbing and very slight nicking (will add protective sleeve when ordered). Contibutors inc. Toulmin, R.S. Peters, Suthlerland, Winch, Wisdom, Pribram, Eysenck, Chomsky and Bannister among others. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net...
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SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY: Its Recognition and Development
by TAYLOR, Calvin W. & BARRON, Frank (eds0
New York and London: John Wiley, 1963. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. VG(+)/Good-VG. 15 Cm x 23 Cm. xxiv+419; only flaw is thin strip of spotted pigment loss along bottom front cover, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked and unworn inside and out; unclipped jacket generally clean, numerous minor edge rubbings & nicks but nothing serious and above average for age, will add protective sleeve when ordered. The numerous contributors included Cattell, Getzels, Guilford, Kuhn, and McClelland. Full sub-title:...
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THE METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATONS OF MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
by BURTT, Edwin Arthur
London: Routlede & Kegan Paul, 1972. 6th rep. of 1932 rev.ed., 1st-1924 . Dark Green Cloth. Fine/Good-VG. 14.5 Cm x 22 Cm. xi+343, series list on verso rear endpaper and rear pastedown; virtually pristine, clean unclipped jacket marred by patches of surface loss to back (1 3 x 2.5 cms, the others smaller or mere specks), spine moderately sun-faded, tiny nick top frotn edge and rubbing top front edge (will add protective sleeve when ordered).
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SCIENCE, REVOLUTION AND DISCONTINUITY
by KRIGE, John
Brighton, Sussex UK/ New Jersey: Harvester Press/ Humanities Press, 1980. 1st ed. . Orange Cloth. VG+/Good-Very Good (now sealed). 14 Cms x 22 .5 Cms. 231 pp., only obvious flaw is slight sun-fading to exposed top spine region, otherwise unmarked & unworn; unclipped jacket clean but some crumpled tearing around top fr.joint & top spine region, this now flattened repaired as far as possible with transparent archival tear repair tape, but still evident. An interesting attack on the then novel...
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COUNTER-MOVEMENTS IN THE SCIENCES. The Sociology of the Alternatives to Big Science
by NOWOTNY, Helgaand ROSE, Hilary (eds)
Dordrecht etc.: D. Reidel, 1979. 1st ed. . Paperback. Good (+). 16 Cms x 22 Cms. Issued as Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 1979. xv+293; internally clean, tight and unmarked but cover has faded spine and some small but nasty rubbed patches to front joint, plus slight spine end rubbing, slight outward curling to fore-edge. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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FEMINIST THOUGHT AND THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
by GERGEN, Mary McCanney (ed.)
New York: New York University Press, 1988. 1st ed. . Red Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. xix+200; no obvious flaws, internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean, bright and unworn. 12 papers on various aspects of the bearing of feminist perspectives on philosophy of science and social science methodology. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: CASE STUDIES
by NICKLES, Thomas (ed.)
Dordrecht etc.: D. Reidel, 1980. 1st ed. . Glossy p/b. VG. 15 Cm x 22 Cm. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume 60. xxv+379+3 (series list), occ. ills, tables & figs numbered by chapter; internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean and minimally worn - a few slight hints of rubbing, front cover slightly curling outwards. Eminent contributors inc. among others Howard Gruber, Rachel Laudan, Michael Ruse and Marx Wartofsky. The second volume of papers given at the Leonard Memorial...
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A SYSTEM OF LOGIC Ratiocinative amd Inductive being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation
by MILL, John Stuart
London: Longmans, 1967. 5th or later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (none Issued?). Fine light brown cloth with gilt sp. lettering. xvi + 622; prev. owner's sig. and tipped in sm. price label to fr. paste-down, otherwise virtually pristine. 1st published in 1843 this is a 'new impression' gf the 8th, 1872, ed. Numerous subsequent impressions were undoubtedly issued as this has always been considered a work of major importance, but not listed. 13 cm x 19 cm
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ARTS v. SCIENCE A Collection of Essays
by ROSS, Alan S.C. (ed.)
London: Methuen, 1967. 1st Edition . Black Boards. Very Good/Fine-. 13.5 cms x 21 Cms. x+158, Roger Smith's sm. green stamp fr. pastedown + his pencilled lining and often acerbic marginalia throughout - could be erased but would not advise it. generally excellent physical condition. Jacket unclipped & clean but one sm.chip top sp. Note: quoted non-UK shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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PSA 1974 Proceedings of the 1974 Binennial Meeting. Philosophy of Science Association
by COHEN, R.S., HOOKER, C.A., MICHALOS, A.C. & VAN EVRA, J.W. (eds)
Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1976. 1st ed. . Dark Blue Cloth. Fine-/VG-. 15.5 Cms x 22.5 Cms. Issued as Synthese Library/Volume 101 and Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. XXXII. xiii+739+(1, series list); pristine bar slight dustiness to top edge of textblock; unclipped jacket hardly worn - a few minor edge nicks - but spine darkened and minor crease to back (will seal in protective wrapper when ordered). A wide-ranging collection of papers including coverage of the Heritability &...
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