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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert e butts”
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  • Science, Decision and Value

    Edited by J.J. Leach, G.A. Pearce, Robert E. Butts ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume grew out of the papers and comments presented at the Fifth University of Western Ontario Philosophy Colloquium, October 31- November 2, 1969. The colloquium papers were delivered by P. Suppes, R. B. Braithwaite, C. W. Churchman, and J. S. Minas. Comments are provided from others attending the colloquium, with one reply by P. Suppes. Also included are papers recently published elsewhere ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Basic Problems in Methodology and Linguistics

    Part Three of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975

    Edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Robert E. Butts ...
    Series Book 3 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, and was sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Witches, Scientists, Philosophers: Essays and Lectures

    by Robert E. Butts ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Robert E. Butts (1928-1997) was a philosopher and historian of science whose central concerns were the distinction between the rational and the irrational. He viewed scientific rationality as our major defence against the various conditions that encourage witch hunts and similar outbursts of irrationality, with all their attendant pain and terror. Butts saw himself as a pragmatic realist, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Historical Pragmatics

    Philosophical Essays

    by Robert E. Butts ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled An Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116, 1989), essays by twenty-six philosophers and historians of the sciences. And that joining of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Galileo

    Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975

    Edited by Joseph C. Pitt, Robert E. Butts ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The essays in this volume (except for the contribution of Dr. Le Grand) are extremely revised versions of papers originally delivered at a workshop on Galileo held in Blacksburg, Virginia in October, 1975. The meeting was organized by Professor Joseph Pitt and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, The College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Research of Virginia ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

    Part Four of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada-1975

    Edited by Jaakko Hintikka, Robert E. Butts ...
    Series Book 4 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science was held at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 27 August to 2 September 1975. The Congress was held under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, and was sponsored by the National Research Council of Canada ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    A sharp and timeless inquiry into piety, justice, and moral truth—Plato’s dialogue that still challenges how we define what is truly right.

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