The Nature of Thought, Volume I
Blanshard, Brand
Place Published: London
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin
Date Published: 1948
Description: Inscribed by the author to philosopher Carl Hempel on fly leaf. Volume I only. 1948, second printing, 654 pp. Hardcover, maroon cloth, 8vo. Very Good copy in a Good dust jacket. Slight slanting to spine; contents starting to age-tone, but text is bright and unmarked. DJ faded, with shallow tearing along edges, and slightly heavier at spine ends. Carl Gustav Hempel (affectionately known as "Peter" by friends and family) was a major twentieth-century philosopher, most notably in the field of logical empiricism. He is especially well-known for his articulation of the Deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the Raven paradox, which highlights the problem of induction. Hempel was involved in the Berlin Circle (and consequently the Vienna Circle) of philosophers (David Hilbert, Richard Von Mises, Rudolph Carnap, Otto Neurath, Hans Reichenbach, Kurt Grelling) before fleeing to the US in the 1930s where he taught at the University of Chicago, City College of New York, Yale, Princeton, and finally the University of Pittsburgh. Volume I only.
Edition: Second printingBinding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Book Id: 0064929
Price: $65.00