First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years' of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread craving for philosophical light at a time of scant such offerings, Morris R. Cohen aimed to demonstrate here the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds - in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s. The volume bears particular relation to George Santayana's Life of Reason and Bertrand Russell ...
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First published in 1931, this volume represents the culmination of twenty years' of the study on the principles of science. Noticing a widespread craving for philosophical light at a time of scant such offerings, Morris R. Cohen aimed to demonstrate here the fundamental and ancient connection between nature and science - between hearts and minds - in an attempt to salve the developing mutual hostility between the two in the 1920s. The volume bears particular relation to George Santayana's Life of Reason and Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics and explores areas including the character of the insurgence against reason and reason in the contexts of the natural and social sciences.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Poor dust jacket. (scientific method, essay, nature) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.
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Good. Stated first edition, 1931, hardcover with blue cloth boards, octavo, 470pp., not illustrated. Book good with rubbing and soil to boards and spine, gilt title on spine rubbed and dulled, spine head chipped, binding tender with inner hinges cracked, text clean and unmarked with toning and mild soil. No DJ.
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Good in Good jacket. Fourth Printing. A Good copy in blue cloth lettered in gold of the January 1932 fourth printing of the original hardcover edition, in a Good dust jacket with chipping at the flap folds and along the top edge (not affecting lettering). Tanning at the outer edges of the text block and to the endpapers, clean/unmarked within, and not ex-library. A sound reading/reference copy of this 470-page volume.
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Fair. Ex-library hardcover with usual stamps and markings This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.
