The Philosophy of No: A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mind by Bachelard, Gaston - 1968

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1824. A new edition. Vol I Part II. Ex University library copy with only small stamps to top and bottom edge and one to verso of title page. Else copy is excellent in Fine bindings of Tan Calf with Gilt tooled border and tooled edge. Has Professional restoration with a new calf spine with five raised bands and Gilt title, plus new eps. pp ix 583. Internally pages are tight and bright with only light age toning to pages near end. Overweight. Re-Issue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/N/A. Large 8vo.

Self-Published. Good+. 1997. 5th Revised Edition. Softcover. Both volumes have rubbing to edges of covers w/several creases and several small tears to spine corners, light toning to rear covers, red ink writing and underlining to text .

NY: Novi-Eborac [sic] : Impensis Ebenez, 1812. Text in Greek and Latin. Published NY (Novi-Eborac [sic]): Impensis Ebenez. F. Backus, Albaniæ, typis D. & G. Bruce, 1812. 8vo., xxvii+281pp.+index. Leather covered boards and spine. Ex-library. Boards loose, spine heavily rubbed, moderated foxing. Fair overall, but good internally. . Hard. Fair. 8vo.

London: W. Mallalieu & Co.. Good+. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Embossed blue cloth Has gilt title on spine. Portrait frontispiece. Text's interior is tight, clean and intact. Fraying at the spine ends and front corners. Folded down page corners. Inscription, "George C. Westphal from Bishop Levering's Library. Spine is slightly age darkened. Rear internal hinge re-glued. Uncommon copy. Religion; Portrait frontispiece.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 414 pages .

London: NLB [New Left Books], 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A nice first printing of the 20th century philosopher's best-known work, an incendiary attack on the scientific method. Using as his principal case study Galileo's theory of heliocentrism, Feyerabend argues that few scientific advances can be ascribed purely to empiricist methodology, and that instead an opportunistic "epistemological anarchism" governs much, if not all, of scientific development. The book was originally conceived as one half of a debate volume, "For and Against Method," with Hungarian philosopher Imre Lakatos, but was published alone following Lakatos' death in 1974. In his 1994 autobiography, "Killing Time," Feyerabend refers to "Against Method" not as a book but as a "collage" of ideas and arguments he'd been exploring in various forms over the preceding years: "I arranged them in a suitable order, added transitions, replaced… Read More

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1824. A new edition. Vol I Part II. Ex University library copy with only small stamps to top and bottom edge and one to verso of title page. Else copy is excellent in Fine bindings of Tan Calf with Gilt tooled border and tooled edge. Has Professional restoration with a new calf spine with five raised bands and Gilt title, plus new eps. pp ix 583. Internally pages are tight and bright with only light age toning to pages near end. Overweight. Re-Issue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/N/A. Large 8vo.

Self-Published. Good+. 1997. 5th Revised Edition. Softcover. Both volumes have rubbing to edges of covers w/several creases and several small tears to spine corners, light toning to rear covers, red ink writing and underlining to text .

NY: Novi-Eborac [sic] : Impensis Ebenez, 1812. Text in Greek and Latin. Published NY (Novi-Eborac [sic]): Impensis Ebenez. F. Backus, Albaniæ, typis D. & G. Bruce, 1812. 8vo., xxvii+281pp.+index. Leather covered boards and spine. Ex-library. Boards loose, spine heavily rubbed, moderated foxing. Fair overall, but good internally. . Hard. Fair. 8vo.

London: W. Mallalieu & Co.. Good+. 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Embossed blue cloth Has gilt title on spine. Portrait frontispiece. Text's interior is tight, clean and intact. Fraying at the spine ends and front corners. Folded down page corners. Inscription, "George C. Westphal from Bishop Levering's Library. Spine is slightly age darkened. Rear internal hinge re-glued. Uncommon copy. Religion; Portrait frontispiece.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 414 pages .

London: NLB [New Left Books], 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A nice first printing of the 20th century philosopher's best-known work, an incendiary attack on the scientific method. Using as his principal case study Galileo's theory of heliocentrism, Feyerabend argues that few scientific advances can be ascribed purely to empiricist methodology, and that instead an opportunistic "epistemological anarchism" governs much, if not all, of scientific development. The book was originally conceived as one half of a debate volume, "For and Against Method," with Hungarian philosopher Imre Lakatos, but was published alone following Lakatos' death in 1974. In his 1994 autobiography, "Killing Time," Feyerabend refers to "Against Method" not as a book but as a "collage" of ideas and arguments he'd been exploring in various forms over the preceding years: "I arranged them in a suitable order, added transitions, replaced… Read More