The Philosophy of the Act
- ISBN-10
- 0226516695
- ISBN-13
- 9780226516691
- Category
- Act (Philosophy)
- Pages
- 696
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1938
- Publisher
- Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Charles William Morris, George Herbert Mead, John Monroe Brewster
Description
"This volume consists almost entirely of unpublished papers which George H. Mead left at his death in 1931"--Pref.
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