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, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-342, [4] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A thorough, critical exposition of modal realism. Chihara offers a new account of the role of interpretations or structures of the formal languages of logic. 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
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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-172, [4] pp. Bound in tan cloth, gilt lettering in twin green rectangles bordered by gilt and a leaf stamped in gilt on the spine, green endpapers and pastedowns. Includes a new preface by the author, addenda, and an..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [3], 4-444, [2] pp. Bound in gold cloth with black lettering on the spine, black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. Edited by John D. Goheen and John L. Mothershead, Jr. Near Fine..... 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. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [4], 3-285, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A magnificent collection of papers by one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, exceedingly uncommon in collectible condition. A Very near..... 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 (2013), 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxii, [1], 2-277, [5] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A sharp copy of this monograph on the metaphysics of causation. 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
New York: Harper & Row (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 76 pp. Bound in grey cloth with silver lettering on the front board and on the spine. Price of $6.50 on front flap of dust jacket. In this short monograph, Putnam discusses the nominalism/realism debate in connection with logic and..... 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. Bound in 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..... 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
London: Methuen & Co LTD [1962], 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 94 pp. Translated by Philip Mairet, with a preface by Mary Warnock. A Very Good book with a few leaves with light underlining in pen in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with toning to the spine panel and three..... More
Berkeley, CA: University Of California Press (1985), 1985. First printing. 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
London: Methuen & Co. LTD (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [1], 2-249 pp., [3]. Bound in light brown cloth with title and author in gold blocked in dark brown with gilt rules and publisher's name in gold on the spine. Strawson was an important philosopher of the..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 422, [2] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Marcus Singer's copy, a distinguished philosopher who is now emeritus from UW Madison. A very good copy of this uncommon work by Taylor, best..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [2], 3-344, [10] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Here Unger presents a physicalist account of The Problem of Personal Identity, and examines his argument's implications for value theory and ethics. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press [1990], 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 299, [3] pp. Blue-grey cloth with blue and silver lettering on the spine. Here van Inwagen argues that the only material objects that can be said to "exist" are living organisms and "simples" or objects that have..... More
Seattle: University Of Washington Press [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 3-130 pp. Bound in light green cloth with black lettering on the spine, patterned tan endpapers and pastedowns. Very Good with a name and date written on free front endpaper and some faint underlining in the..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-238, [2] pp.Bound in dark brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Includes bibliography, index, and notes. An attractive copy of Wiggins well-known book, concerned with identity and persistence through time. Underlining on a few pages..... More
London: Routledge (1994), 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiii, [2], 2-325, [1] pp. Black textured cloth with silver lettering on the spine, grey patterned endpapers and pastedowns. A nice copy of Williamson's well-known monograph on vagueness in which he defends epistemicism, the view that vagueness consists of our ignorance..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-153, [3] pp. Grey cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Association copy, inscribed by Yaqub to Ellery Eells, a former Professor of Philosophy at UW-Madison ("For Ellery, Thank you for your help and advice. Aladdin 27 March 1993)..... More