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
London: Macmillan (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [2], 2-267, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.90 net (58s net) on the front flap of the dust jacket. Slater 29. Fifteen essays by Ayer, some of which deal with the relationship of..... 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
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [4], 2-355, [5] pp. Maroon cloth with silver lettering on the spine. With two invoices from the Harvard University Press offering the book to a Minneapolis resident with their compliments. Dummett's expanded and revised William James lectures, first..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-299, [3] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and twin gilt rules on the spine. An attractive example of this collection of papers by one of the leading current researchers in metaphysics. A very near..... 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
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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-329, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with lettering and publisher's device stamped in gold on the spine. Price of "£5.25 net" on front flap of dust jacket. A volume in the long-running Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy series. An..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-328, [6] pp. Dark blue cloth with lettering and publishers device stamped in gold on the spine. A volume in the Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy series. Slater 618. McCall presents and defends a philosophical theory of spacetime..... More
New York: Hackett Publishing Company [1991], 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-153, [3] pp. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. A nice copy of McGee's well-known book on truth in which he shows how a theory of truth for a formal language may be developed..... More
New York: Cambridge University Press (1995), 1995. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-ix, [1], 1-291, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. An attractive copy of this study of Aristotle's views on essence and modality. Remainder mark on bottom textblock else Fine in a...... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-283, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Part of the Context and Content series, series editor Francois Recanati. An in-depth examination of the philosophy of consciousness: the ways in which conscious beings view..... More
London: Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-vi, 1-163, [7] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With papers by Grice, Strawson, Warnock, Murdoch, and Ryle. Slater 767. A Near Fine book..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 1-145, [1] pp. Bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of '£4.95 net' printed on front flap of dust jacket. Contains the John Locke lectures delivered by Putnam at Oxford in 1976 along..... More
Boston: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Light green cloth with twin gilt rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gilt rules and both gilt lettering and black lettering..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [2], 3-293, [3] pp. Bound in dark grey cloth with white and red lettering on the spine. A presentable copy of Salmon's out of print classic in which he argues that Essentialism is not derivable from the Theory of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, [2] 1-487, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, light yellow topstain. Slater 848. A nice copy of Sellars book in which he defends his theory of physical realism..... More
Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [3], 2-335, [5] pp. Bound in brown cloth with silver lettering on the spine. In this book Professor Sklar explores the underlying structures of what were then contemporary spacetime theories, building on his previous book Space..... More