Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

E C O N O M I C S B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E 192 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862) Inscribed By Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine QUINE, Willard Van Orman. Set Theory and Its Logic. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1500. View on Website First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: “For John with best regards and [best] wishes. Van.” Quine was known as “Van” to his friends. The Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy at Harvard from 1956-78, Quine’s contributions to the field of logic are varied and noteworthy. However, it was in the area of set theory where he made many of his most notable contributions. This volume includes Quine’s definitive exposition of his theory of “virtual sets” and relations and serves also as a summary of axiomatic set theory through the mid- 20th century. Quine “came to be regarded as a general philosopher: initially, as a philosopher of logic and language, but eventually as a metaphysician, whose radical thoughts about ontology, epistemology, and communication had repercussions within all major areas of philosophy… Quine’s writing style is lively, often playful, and always sparklingly clear… Quine is among the most often quoted philosophers of the 20th century” (ANB). A near-fine inscribed copy. “Considered one of the dominant figures in Anglo-American philosophy in the last half of the 20th century”—Britannica