These Woodbridge Lectures were given at Columbia on
October 30 and 31 and November 1 and 2, 1972.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 143 pages. Former owner's signature. Otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy. Seller Inventory # 39455
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xxi, 1 leaf, 143 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in very good+ dust jacket (very slight wear). Woodbridge Lectures, Number 10. Seller Inventory # 04006
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Seller Inventory # S_469224980
Seller: Fables Books, Goshen, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: good. This item has a different cover than shown in the listing, but shares the same ISBN. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. Missing dustjacket. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shay. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller! Seller Inventory # FBV.0231037589.G
Seller: Leopolis, Kraków, Poland
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (21.5 cm), XX, 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed and frayed at extremities). First edition of the Woodbridge Lectures delivered at Columbia University in October and November 1972-- the tenth in the series--and grew directly out of the chapter on causation in his earlier Explanation and Understanding, drafted first at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio in 1971 and first publicly presented as Häggerström Lectures at Uppsala in 1972. Von Wright restricts the treatment deliberately to causality as a category of the philosophy of nature only, setting aside the parallel questions about human action that he had originally planned to include. The book's four parts move with exceptional analytical precision through: the logic of conditions and the extensionalist versus intensionalist positions on causal conditionship (Part I); the ontological background of a logico-atomistic world-model built from states of affairs and temporally related occasions, including the logics of "tomorrow" and "yesterday," modal systems, determinism, and the notion of lost possibilities (Part II); the asymmetry of causal relations, manipulative causation, the distinction between nomic and accidental regularities, and the test condition for lawlike regularities including the famous Mill problem of why night is not a cause of day (Part III); and finally Universal Determinism in its various formulations--from the Laplacean demon to the problem of reconciling determinism with free action--concluding that the truth of Universal Determinism must remain an open question and that the concept of cause presupposes that of action (Part IV). Seller Inventory # 009617
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