Carnap, Rudolf / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Collection of original First edition essays in “Philosophical Studies” and other publications by and on Vienna Circle – Philosopher, Rudolf Carnap. The Collection includes: 1. Leonard Linsky – A Note on Carnap’s “Truth and Confirmation” / Rudolf Carnap – “Rejoinder to Linsky” [Philosophical Studies Volume I, Number 6, 1950] / 2. Rudolf Carnap – Meaning Postulates [The Problem of Truth Based on Meaning] [Philosophical Studies Volume III, Number 5, 1952] / 3. Rudolf Carnap – “On Some Concepts of Pragmatics” / Roderick M. Chisholm – A Note on Carnap’s Meaning Analysis” [Philosophical Studies Volume VI, Number 6, 1955] / 4. Rudolf Carnap – “Remarks on Probability” [Philosophical Studies Volume XIV, Number 5, 1963].

Minnesota, Philosophical Studies, 1950 – 1963. Octavo. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Professor Henry David Aiken.

Feigl, Herbert / [Nagel, Ernest]

Manuscript Letter Signed [MLS] from Herbert Feigl to Ernest Nagel in which he looks foward to Nagel’s “Carus Lectures” and he says he will be “proud & honored to present you at Columbus”. Feigl talks about his upcoming decision on his presidential address and shares with Nagel his momentary topic being “Troubles of Transcendence”. Feigl also speaks about [Karl] Popper coming to Indiana and that he will “invite Gruenbaum, Salomon and other to discuss probabil., induction and if possible also logic of quantum mechanics”. Feigl also mentions “Popper’s intensity is remarkable” and “Feyerabend is a brilliant genius” etc. / Feigl closes by mentioning his success giving a guest speaker’s address to the American Philosophical Association in Washington (August 1958): “I had an audience of more than 3500 people – ‘Aristotle never had it so good’ said one of my friends’”.

[Minnesota], 1962. A 4. 4 pages on 2. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed: “As ever, cordially yours, Herbert”.

[Quine, Willard Van Orman] Bergmann, Gustav.

Logical Atomism, Elementarism and the Analysis of Value [Signed [monogrammed] and inscribed by Vienna Circle-Member Gustav Bergmann to his colleague Willard Van Orman Quine: “To W.V.Q cordially G.B.”.

First Edition. Philosophical Studies, 1951. Octavo. 7 pages inside the Number 6 – issue of Volum II, of the “Philosophical Studies”, edited by Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars”. Original Offprint / Stapled Wrappers. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Excellent association copy between two of the

Schlick, Moritz.

Causality in Contemporary Physics [Includes: “Indeterminateness of Nature and Freedom of the Will”]. Translated by D.Rynin (First published in “Die Naturwissenschaften,1931”).

Edinburgh, 1961. 8°. 21 pages. Softcover. Offprint form “The British Journal for The Philosophy of Science” – 1967.