Books Received

BOOKS RECEIVED 139 as a whole. Nevertheless, it can be read with profit as a sane, temperate and balanced account, from a logician's point of view, of the concepts of explanation, cause and purpose. A. R. LoucH Claremont Graduate School BOOKs RECEIVED First Editions Agassi, Joseph. Faraday as a Natural Philosopher. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1972. Pp. xiv+359. $I2.50. Aiatus XXXIll (1971). Yearbook of the Philosophical Society of Finland. Helsinki: Akateeminen Kirjakanppa. Annuaire 1970-1971. l~cole practique des Hautes ]~tudes. IVth section: Sciences, Historiques, et Philologiques. Paris: ~ la Sorbonne, 1971. p. 968. Contenu: Chronique rapports programmes positions des theses (1969-1970). Arvon, Henri. Le bouddha. "Philosophes" SUP. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972. Pp. II1. Paper, 7.50F. Ayer, A. J. Probability and Evidence. The John Dewey Essays in Philosophy, No. 2. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1972. Pp. x+144. $7. Bachelard, Gaston. L'Engagement rationaliste. Preface by Georges Canguilhem. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1972. Pp. 192. Paper, 19F. Balch, Emily G. Beyond Nationalism. Ed. by Mercedes M. Randall. New York: Twayne, 1972. Pp. 260. Contains a biography by the editor, bibliography, the major writings of Miss Balch on social ideas and issues, and her important address in Oslo in connection with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to her in 1946. Belaief, Gall. Spinoza's Philosophy of Law. The Hague: Mouton, 1971. Pp. 151. Paper. Cambiano, Giuseppe. Platone e le techniche. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1971. Pp. 269 [vi]. Paper, L 1600. Capek, Mili~. Bergson and Modern Physics: /1 Reinterpretation and Re-evaluation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VII. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. Pp. xv+414. $22.50. Chang, Garma C. C. The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen. University Park: Penn. State Univ. Press, 1971. Pp. xxv+270. $8.50. Clark, M. Logic and System: A Study of the Transition from "Vorstellung" to Thought in the Philosophy of Hegel. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. Pp. xiii+213. Paper, $I0. Published in Europe by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague. Coercion. Ed. by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman. Nomos XIV, Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Chicago: Aldine Atherton, Inc., 1972. Pp. xiv+328. $8.95. Contributions by Michael D. Bayles, John W. Chapman, Samuel Dubois Cook, Robert K. Faulkner, Bernard Gert, Virginia Held, Robert Jervis, William Leon McBride, Donald McIntosh, J. Roland Pennock, William H. Piker, J. Howard Sobel, Michael Weinstein, Alan P. Wertheimer, Robert Paul Wolff. Collins, James. Interpreting Modern Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1972. Pp. xii+463. $14; paper, $7.50. Contemporary Philosophy in Scandinavia. Ed. by Raymond E. Olson and Anthony M. Paul, intro, by G. H. von Wright. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1972. Pp. x+508. $15. Documents in the History of American Philosophy from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey. Ed., with commentary by Morton White. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1972. Pp. xiii+ 479. $8.50; paper, $4.95. Dubarle, Dominique, and Andre Doz. Logique et dialectique. Sciences humaines et sociales. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1972. Pp. ix+246. Paper. 140 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Earle, William. The Autobiographical Consciousness: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Existence. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972. Pp. xv+235. $10; paper, $2.95. Engel, S. Morris. Wittgenstein's Doctrine of the Tyranny of Language: An Historical and Critical Examination o/His Blue Book. Intro. by Stephen Toulmin. The Hague: Martinns Nijhoff, 1971. Pp. xix-F145. Paper, Gld. 23.50. Frankel, Charles. The Pleasures of Philosophy. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1972. Pp. 341. $8.95. Friedmann, Yohanan. Shaykh Ahmad Sirhind~: An Outline of His Thought and a Study of His Image in the Eyes of Posterity. McGilI-Queen's Univ. Press, 1971. Pp. xiv+130. $9.50. Garforth, F. W. The Scope of Philosophy: An Introductory Study Book. New York: Humanities Press, 1971. Pp. x+251. $8; paper $4. Published in London by Longman Group Limited. Geschichte der Philosophie, VoL V: Studia Leibnitiana. Ed. Kurt Miller and Wilhelm Totok. Acts of the International Leibniz Congress in Hanover 1966. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1970. Pp. 300. DM 38.40. Contributions by Meyer, Zempliner, Machovec, Brambora, Uslar, Scherz, Zahn, Bruaire, Klibansky, Henrici, Lichtigfeld, Whitehead, von...