W. Stanley Jevons : collected reviews and obituaries

著者

• Jevons, William Stanley

書誌事項

W. Stanley Jevons : collected reviews and obituaries

with an introduction by Takutoshi Inoue ; and headnotes by Bert Mosselmans

Thoemmes Press, 2002

• : [set]
• 1
• 2

注記

"Appendix: Bibliographical list of W. Stanley Jevons's writings, etc.": v. 2, p. 351-411

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) was a major figure in Victorian England who made ground-breaking contributions to the development of economics, logic and the philosophy of science. In economics, Jevons pioneered the application of statistical methods and created a new theory of value, based on utility instead of labour (The Theory of Political Economy, 1871). As a logician, he worked in the tradition of De Morgan and Boole, devising a "Logical Machine" that would perform reasoning processes on data entered via a keyboard. His "Primer of Logic", 1876, was reprinted more than forty times. In science, Jevons advocated a probabilistic methodology based on what he called "the inverse deductive method". His book "The Principles of Science" (1874) is one of the classic works in the philosophy of science of the 19th century. Thoemmes Press presents a collection of 19th-century responses to Jevons. These two volumes contain contemporary reviews of some 30 of Jevons's works, gathered from more than 40 journals and newspapers across the world. The range is wide - from a 20-page review of "The Coal Question..." in the "Quarterly Review" to a single paragraph on "A Serious Fall in the Price of Gold..." in the "Melbourne Argus". In total, some 100 reviews are included, as are a dozen obituaries of Jevons from England, France and the USA. Almost none of this material has ever been reprinted before. The collection is introduced by the distinguished Jevons scholar Takutoshi Inoue, and each batch of reviews is prefixed by an explanatory headnote written by Jevons expert, Bert Mosselmans. As an appendix to Volume 2, we include a revised version of Professor Inoue's definitive bibliography, which now lists 240 published writings by Jevons, plus all the known reviews of them.

目次

• Volume 1 (c 300pp) Reviews published between 1856 and 1872 of writings by W. Stanley Jevons, including reviews of: "Two Diagrams"
• "A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold..."
• "Pure Logic, or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity..."
• "The Coal Question - an Inquiry concerning the ...probable Exhaustion of our Coal Mines"
• "The Substitution of Similars"
• "Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive"
• "The Power of Numerical Discrimination", Nature
• "The Theory of Political Economy"
• "Helmholtz on the Axioms of Geometry", Nature
• "Maupertius on the Survival of the Fittest", Nature
• "Stirling's "Philosophy of Law"", Nature
• "The Principles of Science - A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Methods". Volume 2 (c 300pp) Reviews published between 1873 and 1981 of writings by W. Stanley Jevons, including reviews of: "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange"
• "The Post Office Telegraphs and their Financial Results", Fortnightly Review
• "Primer of Logic" "John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested", Contemporory Review
• "Primer of Political Economy" "Remarks on the Statistical Use of the Arithmometer", Journal of the Statistical Society of London
• "Studies in Deductive Logic"
• "Bimetallism", Contemporary Review
• "Married Women in Factories", Contemporary Review
• "The State in Relation to Labour"
• "Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers"
• "Investigations in Currency and Finance"
• "Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Edited by his Wife"
• "Pure Logic and Other Minor Works"
• "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons"
• (each section of reviews is prefixed by a short explanatory description by Bert Mosselmans). Obituaries of W. Stanley Jevons. Appendices: "Biblographical List of W. Stanley Jevons's Writings, etc. including the reviews and translations of his writings and obituaries of him" by Takutoshi Inoue, with additions by Michael V. White.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA58513401
• ISBN:
  • 1855069768
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Bristol
• ページ数/冊数: 2 v.
• 大きさ: 23 cm