Logique

1981 · Best.-Nr. 009076 — Dordrecht Holland / Boston U.S.A.: D. Reidel Publishing 1981. Near Fine condition. 15 cm x by 23 cm. A very nice copy but for a little age-toning to the front wrapper. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Metaphysics of Epistemology. Metaphilosophy. This is an offprint of MENTAL EVENTS by the influential American philosopher Wilfrid Stalker Sellars 1912-1989. It originally appeared in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES 39 1981 pp. 325-345. This offprint i.e. a reproduction of an article that was originally contained in a larger publication appears to have been produced by the original publisher D. Reidel and has a printed price of $2.10. This is one of several dozen books and periodicals from Alonzo Church's library that we were lucky enough to purchase at auction in New Jersey. Several of the books contain his signature or a presentation inscription to him. Unfortunately this copy does not have those signs of his ownership. But please check our inventory for several others that do. Alonzo Church 1903 - 1995 was professor of mathematics at Princeton University 1929-1967 and of mathematics and philosophy at UCLA 1967-1990. He was the founding editor of the JOURNAL OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC. Among his most influential contributions are Church's Theorem Church's Thesis and the Lambda Calculus. His work was of major importance in mathematical logic recursion theory theoretical computer science and functional programming languages in general. Professor Church's creation of lambda calculus was the foundation for the LISP programming language and provided the semantic model for ALGOL. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church is regarded by many as the greatest American logician of the 20th century. For more on Church's contributions see items 250 251 321 394 and 533 in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE A LIBRARY ON THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. offprint. Softcover stapled wraps. Near Fine condition. pp. 325-345. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. D. Reidel Publishing Paperback