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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 |
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. ISBN 0-918024-46-3
Cloth $30. ISBN 0-918024-45-5 |
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 |
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 |
