The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method

The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method was an influential series of monographs published published 1910–1965 under the general editorship of Charles Kay Ogden. This series published some of the landmark works on psychology and philosophy, particularly the thought of the Vienna Circle in English. It published some of the major psychologists and philosophers of the time, such as Alfred Adler, C. D. Broad, Rudolf Carnap, F. M. Cornford, Edmund Husserl, Carl Jung, Kurt Koffka, Ernst Kretschmer, Bronisław Malinowski, Karl Mannheim, George Edward Moore, Jean Nicod, Jean Piaget, Frank P. Ramsey, Otto Rank, W. H. R. Rivers, Louis Leon Thurstone, Jakob von Uexküll, Hans Vaihinger, Edvard Westermarck, William Morton Wheeler, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. N. Findlay and others. Most of the 204 volumes in the series have been reprinted, some in revised editions.

The following is the statement about the series as it appears on the title page of the book by R. Carnap 'The Logical Syntax of Language' (1937) published in the series in 1959:

'The purpose of the The International Library is to give expression, in a convenient format at moderate price, to the remarkable developments which have recently occurred in Psychology and its allied sciences. The older philosophers were preoccupied by metaphysical interests which, for the most part, have ceased to attract the younger investigators, and their forbidding terminology too often acted as a deterrent for the general reader. The attempt to deal in clear language with current tendencies, has met with a very encouraging reception, and not only have accepted authorities been invited to explain the newer theories, but it has been found possible to include a number of original contributions of high merit.'

List of books in the series

Listed alphabetically by author, with date of original publication (many have been reprinted).

1. Bentham, Jeremy. The theory of legislation (1931).
2. Burrow, Trigant. The social basis of consciousness: a study in organ psychology based upon a synthetic and societal concept of neuroses (1927).
3. Carnap, Rudolf. The Logical Syntax of Language (1937).
4. Ramsey, Frank P. Foundations: essays in philosophy, logic, mathematics and economics (1931).
5. Richards, I.A. Mencius on the mind: experiments in multiple definition (1964).
6. Rivers, W.H.R. Medicine, magic, and religion (1921).
7. Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi. Lucifer and Prometheus: A Study of Milton's Satan (1952).