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The Meeting of
East and West
F.S.C. Northrop
F. S. C. Northrop in this perceptive work was one of the first
Americans to understand the significant features of eastern
culture, and to grasp its potential for influencing the rest
of the world.
Contents: The Contemporary World The Rich Culture of
Mexico The Free Culture of the United States Unique
Elements in British Democracy German Idealism
Russian Communism Roman Catholic Culture and Greek Science
The Meaning of Western Civilization The Traditional
Culture of the Orient The Meaning of Eastern Civilization
Contemporary India, Japan, and China The Solution
of the Basic Problem Practical Wisdom.
531 + xxii pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Reprint of first edition published in 1946.
Paper $30. ISBN
0-918024-11-0
Cloth $45. ISBN 0-918024-10-2 |
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The Logic of the Sciences and the Humanities
F.S.C. Northrop
This work explores the potential for bringing scientific verification
and its attendant agreement into the world of ideological
humanistic controversy.
Contents: The Initiation of Inquiry The Analysis of
the Problem The Natural History Stage of Inquiry
The Stage of Deductively Formulated Theory The Possible
Concepts by Intuition and Concepts by Postulation as a Basic
Terminology for Comparative Philosophy The Two Kinds
of Deductively Formulated Theory Epistemic Correlations
and Operational Definitions The Method and Theories
of Physical Science in Their Bearing on Biological Organization
The Functions and Future of Poetry Body and
Mind The Concept of Probability in Quantum Mechanics
Causality in Field Physics in Its Bearing upon Biological
Causation The Method and Limited Predictive Power of
Classical Economic Science Generalizations in Social
Science Pareto's General Sociology The Ideological
Problems of Social Science The Criterion of the Good
State Philosophical Method and World Peace Toward
a Bill of Rights for the United Nations Educational
Method for World Understanding The Scientific Method
for Determining the Normative Social Theory of Ends of Human
Action The Physical Sciences, Philosophy and Human
Values The Methods and Grounds of Religious Knowledge
Logic and Civilization.
402 + xiv pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Reprint of first edition published
in 1947.
Paper $27. ISBN
0-918024-31-5 |
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The Taming of the Nations
F.S.C. Northrop
This work has been hailed for its exposition of key philosophic
principles, as well as its prophetic insights into the internal
and external relations of specific political cultures. Perhaps
most remarkable are Northrop's comments which foresaw the
recent resurgence of Islamic culture.
362 + xvi pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Reprint of first edition published
1952.
Paper $20.
$10.00 ISBN
0-918024-46-3
Cloth $30.
$15.00 ISBN
0-918024-45-5 |
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Science and First Principles
F.S.C. Northrop
Northrop was years ahead of his time when he set down Science
and First Principles in 1931. This work demonstrates Northrop's
grasp of the deep epistemological significance of the twentieth-century
revolution in science.
Contents: The Significance of Contemporary Scientific Thought
The Theory of Relativity Quantum and Wave Mechanics
and Thermodynamics The Living Organism Man
The Foundations of Experience and Knowledge.
299 + xvii pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Reprint of first edition published
in 1931.
Cloth $32. ISBN
0-918024-08-0 |
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The Prolegomena to
a 1985 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
F.S.C. Northrop
Using the spirit of the Alexandrian synthesis of science and
philososphy, Northrop unfolds the humanistic implications
underlying Einstein's theory of relativity and Heisenberg's
formulation of quantum physics.
73 + xvi pages, 6 x 9.
First published in 1985 by Ox Bow Press.
Cloth $30. ISBN
0-918024-35-8 |
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Open Vistas
Henry Margenau
Margenau here takes the layman to the frontier in several
sciences, and discusses the philosophical implications suggested
by current thinking in these fields. Open Vistas considers
such matters as scientific method, the nature of facts, esthetics
and relativity, and the interrelationship of reality, determinism,
and human choice.
256 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.
Reprint of first edition published1961.
Paper $18. ISBN
0-918024-28-5
Cloth $26. ISBN 0-918024-27-7 |
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The Nature of Physical Reality
Henry Margenau
This modern classic in the philosophy of science integrates
the author's perspective as a theoretical physicist with his
erudition in philosophy to explore the underlying epistemological
structure of modern science. Margenau's development of constructionalism
continues to be regarded as a lasting contribution to the theory
of knowledge.
479 + xiii pages, 6 x 9.
Reprint
of first edition published in 1950.
Paper $25. ISBN
0-918024-03-X
Cloth $35. ISBN 0-918024-02-1 |
