Form and Strategy in Science. Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. FIRST EDITION.

GREGG, John R. & F. T. C. Harris (eds.) [WOODGER, Joseph Henry]

Edité par Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel, 1964.

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Frontispiece (portrait of J. H. Woodger), vii, 476 pp. Original cloth. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Woodger was "a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influential to the philosophy of biology in the twentieth century. Karl Popper, the prominent philosopher of science [Popper is a contributor to this volume], claimed 'Woodger . . . influenced and stimulated the evolution of the philosophy of science in Britain and in the United States as hardly anybody else' . . . . He was a member of the Theoretical Biology Club along with Joseph Needham, Conrad Hal [C. H.] Waddington, John Desmond Bernal, and Dorothy Wrinch. Karl Popper described the club as 'one of the most interesting study circles in the field of the philosophy of science' ". This Festschrift volume for Woodger has many illustrious contributors: Morton Beckner, Peter Alexander, W. van Orman Quine, N. Rashevsky, H. F. Blum, Evert Willem Beth, Robert Rogers, John G. Kemeny, R. M. Martin, Karl R. Popper, Frederic B. Fitch, Czeslaw Lejewski, F. T. C. Harris, John Tyler Bonner, W. Mays, R. C. Lewontin, Olaf Helmer, B. Dunham & R. Fridshal & J. H. North, Marian Przelecki, Paul G. 'Espinasse, Heinz Herrmann, John Davison, R. F. J. Withers, Abe Sklar, Leigh van Valen. Aristid Lindenmayer.

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• Titre: Form and Strategy in Science. Studies Dedicated to Joseph Henry Woodger on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. FIRST EDITION.
• Éditeur: Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel, 1964.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale