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
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: 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
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
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, 262, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. Rear endpaper contains advertisements for the International Library of Philosophy, series edited by Ted Honderich. Illustrated with a few figures. A...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [4], 4-543, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a few in-text diagrams. Honderich 645; Parfit, Reasons and Persons; SEP "Personal Identity and Ethics". Parfit's magnum opus, a masterful exploration of the issue of personal..... 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
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
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
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
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-160, [4] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price sticker from Basil Blackwell of £4.25 net on the front flap of the jacket. An examination of some of Kripke's work on metaphysics, as well as fundemental concepts of..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xv, [4], 4-326, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece ("Aristotle's example of a coincidence" taken from an illuminated manuscript). Slater 907. In this, the first volume in Sorabji's..... 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
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [5], 2-312, [6] pp. Navy blue cloth with publisher's device and lettering in gold on the spine. A volume in the long-running Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy series. An attractive copy of the second and revised edition of Swinburne's..... 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
Oxford: Oxford University Press (1985), 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 2-90 pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with lettering stamped in gold on the spine. Slater (British) 961. An attractive copy of one of Urmson's best-known works, a study of Berkeley's metaphysics in relation to his concepts of science..... 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