Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1983), 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-180, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Honderich 58. Armstrong was most famous for his work in philosophy of mind and metaphysics. In this book, Armstrong presents sustained criticism of the regularity theory..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-242, [2] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with publisher's device and lettering stamped in gold on the spine. Price of 25s. net on the front jacket flap. Edited by J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock. Austin was one of..... More
London: Macmillan & Co LTD, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-272 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 30s net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Nine essays on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Slater 29. Ayer's collection of essays is..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 276 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 10s. 6d. net on the front flap of the jacket. Slater 28. A.J. Ayer's third book, an exploration of the philosophy of metaphysics and epistemology. He..... More
Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [4], 3-458 pp. Bound in dark brown cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00/75s on front jacket flap. Bergmann was a member of the Vienna Circle and came to the United States in..... More
London: William Tegg & Co., 1878. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-lii, [5], 6-220 pp. Bound in green cloth with both boards bordered in blind, lettering and device stamped in gilt on the front board, yellow/green endpapers and pastedowns. Algaier, Reconstructing the Library of William James; Gay Wilson..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, 184 pp. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. An attractive copy of Boolos' classic treatise on the modal logic G in which the box operator is to be read as "it is provable that..."..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press [2005], 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-210, [4] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £9.95 and $17.95 on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Connee and Sider's introduction to the basic problems tof metaphysics. The topics covered here include time..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1994), 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 1-160, [6] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Cresswell is best-known for his work in modal logic, metaphysics and philosophy of language. In this monograph, he argues that the correct understanding of the..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvii, [4], 2-482, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A collection of twenty essays from Dummett on philosophy of language and metaphysics, three of which were previously unpublished. His essays here focus primarily on meaning and what..... More
London: Gerald Duckworth & Company Limited (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-lviii, 1-470 pp. Bound in light brown cloth with publishers device and lettering stamped in gold on the spine. Price of £18 Net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dummett was one of the most..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, 1-300, [6] pp. Bound in brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with numerous black and white diagrams, includes a bibliography and indices. Signature of philosopher Gareth Matthews, a specialist in ancient philosophy, on the free..... More
Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985. Later printing. Paperback. Great book for those with an interest in Aristotle's Metaphysics who lack expertise in Classical Greek (Furth attempts to translate the text into English as literally as possible, and includes some great notes on difficult Greek terms and challenging passages). More
Berkeley: University of California Press [1979], 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-182, [2] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. An exposition on McTaggart's metaphysics. Jacket shows some toning to its flaps and rear panel. More
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 1-142, [6] pp. Quarter orange cloth over beige cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Honderich 323. Goodman wrote a great deal about topics in metaphysics, philosophy of science and of art, and..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1949. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 9-399, [1] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. With an introduction by Werner Brock. Nordquist 11. Sass 37, 45, 62. According to Sass, this book is the first one of Heidegger's to be translated into..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-153, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £3.50 net in UK on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. Hinckfuss explores metaphysical and mathematical questions of space..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [2], 3-318, [8] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Hirsch is one of the leading contemporary researchers in metaphysics. In this book, Hirsch studies the notion of persistence through time examining identity conditions for..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [6], 4-501, [1] pp. Beige cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $15.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A broad survey of self and consciousness. Jacket has a small closed..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press [2013], 2013. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xiii, [3], 3-170 pp. Black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. A kind of sequel to Naming and Necessity, Kripke's classic work in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Difficult to find in hardcover format. Minor wear..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-256, [2] pp. Bound in grey cloth with lettering, twin rules, and publisher's device in gilt on the spine. Price of £4.65 net on front jacket flap. An early volume in the long-running Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], ix-xii, [2], 1-213, [3] pp. Bound in blue cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $8.00 on the front jacket flap. Foreword by Willard Van Orman Quine. Slater 572. Lewis, one of the most important philosophers of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [1], 2-150 pp. Bound in textured blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 572. One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth-century, Lewis made outstanding contributions in numerous branches of the subject including (but not..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [4], 3-285, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slater 572. A magnificent collection of papers by one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, exceedingly uncommon in collectible condition. A Very..... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [4], 4-321, [3] pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering inset within a black rectangle bordered by triple gilt horizontal rules and publisher's name stamped in gold on the spine. Illustrated with several line drawings and..... More