A Syllabus of Logic in which The Views of Kant are Generally Adopted, and the Laws of Syllogism Symbolically Expressed

8vo. vi, 164pp. Bound in period boards. Inscribed, ‘The Hon’ble Julian Fane. With the author’s kind regards. 1848’. Boards a little worn at the spine ends and corners, otherwise very sound. Internally, tight and clean throughout. From the library of the philosopher, Shadworth Hodgson by way of his bequest to Corpus Christie College, Oxford with his and their bookplates to the front paste down and end paper, a barcode to the front paste down and library label to the base of the spine. Shadworth Hodgson (1832-1912) was a British philosopher who worked and published outside the University system. He was a prolific early contributor to the journal, Mind, and part of the Scratch Eight, mostly fellow contributors, including the parapsychologist, Edmund Gurney and Virginia Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephens, who met to debate philosophical and psychological issues. It was at a meeting of the Eight where Hodgson first met the American philosopher, William James, brother of Henry James, who was invited to a meeting by Gurney. Hodgson and James were regular correspondents from that point on, with James influenced and quoting from Hodgson in his book The Principles of Psychology. James’ concept of the ‘Specious Present’ owing a debt to Hodgson’s idea of ‘the empirical present’. The phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl, who may have imbibed Hodgson through William James later credited Hodgson with insights into a subjectivist approach to philosophy. Julian Fane (1827-1870) was a Cambridge Apostle, poet and diplomat.…