Gibson (A. Boyce) The Philosophy of Descartes
£80
London, Methuen, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
A sturdy Methuen monograph on the man who doubted everything except himself, by a philosopher from the profession’s most concentrated household. Alexander Boyce Gibson was the son of W.R. Boyce Gibson (Husserl’s first English translator) whom he later succeeded in the chair of philosophy at Melbourne, the Gibsons holding that professorship between them for the better part of half a century in a display of hereditary rationalism Descartes would have struggled to derive from first principles.
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A very good copy; jacket slightly dulled to spine, but overall very good.
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