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Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 96x12x129. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page with inscription, "To Tim--You were there at the beginning." A fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2009 Hard Cover. 202 pp. Author is a philosophy professor at St. John Fisher College, in Rochester, New York. W.K. Clifford (1845-1879) was a noted mathematician and popularizer of science in the Victorian era. Although he made major contributions in the field of geometry, he is perhaps best known for a short essay he wrote in 1876, entitled "The Ethics of Belief", in which he argued that "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for any one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." Delivered initially as an address to the august Metaphysical Society (whose members included such luminaries as Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Gladstone, T. H. Huxley, and assorted scientists, clerics and philosophers of…
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- Title W. K. Clifford and the "Ethics of Belief
- Author Timothy J. Madigan
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- Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Date 2008-01
- ISBN 9781847185037
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