Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1970. First edition, second printing.

EMINENT NOBEL LAUREATE EXPLAINS HOW SCIENCE IS DONE--INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

13x21 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, inscribed by author on front free endpaper, "For Harriett most admiringly from Peter, in gratitude for Literates (?) and as a souvenir of a very injoyable weekend. October 1973", i-vii, [1], 62. Very good in price-clipped very good jacket in protective mylar sleeve.

SIR PETER MEDAWAR (1915 - 1987) was a British zoologist whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants. He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet. FROM AUTHOR'S PREFACE: "These Lectures began in my mind in the form of a question: why are most scientists completely indifferent to-even contemptuous of-scientific methodology? Put generally, the answer could only be "because what passes for scientists do or ought to do." I therefore thought it important to explain what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning, as I see it, and to show that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with the names of Whewell and Peirce and Popper can give the scientist a certain limited but useful insight into the way he thinks."