Foresight and Understanding : Enquiry into the Aims of Science by Stephen Toulmin. Foreword by Jacques Barzun. 1963 Harper Torchbook Science Library. OP

This important book is "Foresight and Understanding : An Enquiry into the Aims of Science" by Stephen Toulmin. Its Foreword was written by Jacques Barzun. It was published as a Harper Torchbook in "The Science Library" in 1963, It is now Out of Print. (OP) The following is excerpted from Jacques Barzun's Foreword : " To know what science is, what it does, and how it affects other manifestations of mind is a task for the man who is at once critic, historian , and philosopher, and who has also been trained in one of the sciences as well as mathematics. Professor Toulmin, who is qualified in these ways, has the added merit of being a lucid and lively writer." Said Henry E. Kyburg in "The Philosophical Review" : "This is an interesting, well-written book, and a part of its burden is a thoroughly sound and much needed antidote to temporal provincialism." CONTENTS : ** Forecasting and Understanding ** Ideals of Natural Order ** Forms and Styles of Theory ** The Evolution of Scientific Ideas. SERIES : Harper Torchbooks Science Library (TB 564G) TITLE : Foresight and Understanding : An Enquiry into the Aims of Science AUTHOR : Stephen Toulmin (1922 - 2009) FOREWORD : Jacques Barzun (Jacques Martin Barzun, 1907 - 2012) IMPRINT : Harper & Row PLACE : New York DATE : 1963 EDITION : Reprint - First Harper Torchbook Printing DETAILS : Trade paperback; contains a Preface, a Foreword, and an Index; 117 pages, plus 10 pages of publisher’s list; 5 3/8” x 8”; decorated wraps, glued . Cover design by Ong Ching-Ching CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and serviceable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR " Slight dulling of spine; no reading crease to spine; surface rub is mild ; modest rub to spine joints; soft bumps to corner tips … else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : On the first page and the verso of the front cover share a minute tea stain (there is also a slight abrasion thereto); a few of the leaves have bumping to top fore-edge corner tips (this is very mild and hardly of effect) - else the interior is clean and unmarked - no underlining, writing, marginalia, or signatures.…