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Published by The Macmillan Company, 1957
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed, small tear along top edge of front jacket panel, rear jacket panel lightly soiled. 1957 Hard Cover. 396 pp. The essays published in this volume had their origin in a course of lectures organized by the British Council at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the summer of 1953. This course, the first of its kind, was attended by professors, lecturers and teachers of philosophy from such countries as France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, China and the United States. The lectures discussed proved of such interest and importance that their circulation among a wider public will be welcome.--Foreword.
Published by George Allen and Unwin, London, 1979
ISBN 10: 0041920341ISBN 13: 9780041920345
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 488 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; red upper edge. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the front free endpaper; no other interior markings. This collection of essays contains: Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970 by Gilbert Ryle; Propositions and Sentences by Alan R. White; Russell's Paradox and Some Others by William C. Kneale; A Diagnosis of the Liar and Other Semantical Vicious-Circle Paradoxes by Charles S. Chihara; A Refutation of an Unjustified Attack on the Axiom of Reducibility by John Myhill; On Constrained Denotation by Abraham Robinson; Is Philosophy an Idleness in Mathematics by Alice Ambrose; Post Principia by R. L. Goodstein; Russell and Modal Logic by Nicholas Rescher; Russell and Bradley on Relations by Timothy Sprigge; On Russell's Critique of Leibniz's Philosophy by Stephan Korner; On Some Relations Between Leibniz's Monadology and Transfinite Set Theory: A Complement to Russell's Thesis on Leibniz by Joel I. Friedman; The Infinite by Morris Lazerowitz; Belief as a Propositional Attitude by Alan R. White; Truth Belief and Modes of Description by R. M. Martin; The Concern About Truth by Frederick L. Will; Russell and the Form of Outer Sense by Jay F. Rosenberg; Russell's Theory of Perception by D. J. O'Connor; Russell and Schlick: A Remarkable Agreement on a Monistic Solution of the Mind Body Problem by Herbert Feigl; Self-acquaintance and the Meaning of I by G. N. A. Vesey; Some Aspects of Knowledge by George W. Roberts; Russell's Philosophical Account of Probability by Bas. C. van Fraassen; Foundations by Renford Bambrough; Russell's Ethics by W. I. Matson; Russell's Judgement on Bolshevism by Antony Flew; and Solipsistic Politics: Russell's Empiricist Liberalism by Benjamin R. Barber; followed by an index. Size: 8vo. Book.