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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Listed below are the contributors to the Dictionary of the
History of Ideas. Each author's name is followed
by his
institutional affiliation at the time of publication and the titles of articles
written. The symbol † indicates
that an author is deceased.
NICOLA ABBAGNANO. Professor of the History
of
Philosophy, University of Turin. Renaissance
Humanism.
H. B. ACTON. Professor, University of Edinburgh.
Hegelian Political and Religious Ideas.
JOSEPH AGASSI. Professor of Philosophy and His-
tory of Science, Boston University and Tel
Aviv Uni-
versity. Anthropomorphism in Science.
A. OWEN ALDRIDGE. Editor, Comparative
Liter-
ature Studies, University
of Illinois. Ancients and Mod-
erns in the Eighteenth Century; Primitivism in the
Eighteenth
Century.
A. HILARY ARMSTRONG. Gladstone Professor of
Greek,
University of Liverpool. Neo-Platonism.
KENNETH J. ARROW. Professor of Economics,
Harvard
University. Formal Theories of Social Wel-
fare.
STUART ATKINS. Professor of German, University
of
California at Santa Barbara. Motif in Literature: The
Faust Theme.
EDWARD G. BALLARD. Professor of Philosophy,
Tulane
University. Sense of the Comic; Sense of the
Tragic.
D. M. BALME. Professor, University of London.
Biological Conceptions in Antiquity.
MOSHE BARASCH. Hebrew University. The City.
FREDERICK M. BARNARD. Professor, University
of Western
Ontario. Culture and Civilization in Mod-
ern Times.
FELICE BATTAGLIA. Professor, University of
Bologna. Work.
FRANKLIN L. BAUMER. Randolph W. Townsend
Jr. Professor
of History, Yale University. Romanticism
(ca. 1780 to ca.
1830).
MONROE C. BEARDSLEY. Professor, Temple
University. Theories of Beauty since the Mid-
Nineteenth Century.
LEWIS WHITE BECK. Burbank Professor of In
tellectual and Moral Philosophy, University of
Rochester. Antinomy of Pure Reason.
ISAIAH BERLIN. President of Wolfson College,
University
of Oxford. The Counter-Enlightenment.
BERNARD BEROFSKY. Associate Professor of
Philosophy,
Columbia University. Free Will and
Determinism.
PETER A. BERTOCCI. Borden Parker Bowne Pro-
fessor of Philosophy, Boston University. Creation in
Religion.
JAN BIALOSTOCKI. Professor of Art History,
University
of Warsaw; Curator, National Museum in
Warsaw. Iconography.
ROBERT BLANCHÉ. Honorary Professor, Univer-
sity of Toulouse. Axiomatization.
GEORGE BOAS. Professor Emeritus of the History
of
Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University. Cycles;
Idea;
Macrocosm and Microcosm; Nature; Primitivism;
Theriophily; Vox
populi.
SALOMON BOCHNER. Professor Emeritus of
Mathematics,
Princeton University; Professor of Math-
ematics and Chairman of the Department, Rice Uni-
versity. Continuity and Discontinuity in
Nature and
Knowledge; Infinity; Mathematics in Cultural History;
Space; Symmetry and Asymmetry.
KENNETH E
. BOULDING. Professor of Econom-
ics, University of Colorado. Economic
Theory of Natu-
ral Liberty.
KARL DIETRICH BRACHER. Professor of Politi-
cal Science and Contemporary History, University
of
Bonn. Totalitarianism.
S. G. F. BRANDON.† Church as an
Institution; Idea
of God from Prehistory to the Middle Ages; Origins
of
Religion; Ritual in Religion; Sin and Salvation.
ASA BRIGGS. Professor of History and Vice-
Chancellor, University of Sussex.
Welfare State.
TEDDY BRUNIUS. Professor, Institute of Aes-
thetics, University of Uppsala. Catharsis.
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD. Hon. Fellow of Pe-
terhouse and Emeritus Regius Professor of Modern
History, University of Cambridge. Balance of Power;
Christianity in History; Historiography.
MILIČ ČAPEK. Professor of Philosophy,
Graduate
School, Boston University. Time.
D. S. L. CARDWELL. University of Manchester.
Technology.
PETER CAWS. Professor of Philosophy, Hunter
College and
Graduate Center, City University of New
York. Structuralism.
W. OWEN CHADWICK. Regius Professor of Mod-
ern History, University of Cambridge. Religion and
Science in the Nineteenth Century.
JACQUES CHORON.† Death and Immortality.
VINCENZO CIOFFARI. Visiting Professor and
Scholar-in-Residence, Boston University. Fortune, Fate,
and Chance.
THOMAS COLE. Professor of Greek and Latin,
Yale
University. Cultural Development in Antiquity.
ROSALIE L. COLIE. Nancy Duke Lewis Professor
of
Comparative Literature, Brown University. Literary
Paradox.
JAMES COLLINS. Professor of Philosophy, Saint
Louis
University. Idea of God, 1400-1800.
LEWIS A. COSER. Distinguished Professor of Soci-
ology, State University of New York at
Stony Brook.
Class.
THOMAS A. COWAN. Professor of Law, Rutgers,
The State
University, Newark. Causation in Law.
MERLE CURTI. Professor Emeritus of History,
University
of Wisconsin, Madison. Philanthropy; Psy-
chological Theories in American Thought.
MARY DALY. Associate Professor of Theology,
Boston
College. Faith, Hope, and Charity; Social Atti-
tudes Towards Women.
RAYMOND F. DASMANN. Senior Ecologist, In-
ternational Union for the Conservation
of Nature.
Conservation of Natural Resources.
ENRICO DE ANGELIS. University of Pisa. Causa-
tion in the Seventeenth
Century, Final Causes.
ALLEN G. DEBUS. Professor of the History of
Science,
University of Chicago (The Morris Fishbein
Center for the Study of the
History of Science and
Medicine, Department of History). Alchemy.
PHILLIP DE LACY. Professor of Classical Studies,
University of Pennsylvania. Skepticism in Antiquity.
ALEXANDER PASSERIN D'ENTRÈVES.
Profes-
sor of Political Theory, University of
Turin. The State.
DENIS DE ROUGEMONT. Director, Graduate
Institute for
European Studies, Geneva. Love.
R. W. M. DIAS. Magdalene College, University of
Cambridge. Legal Concept of Freedom.
HERBERT DIECKMANN. Avalon Foundation
Professor in the
Humanities, Cornell University. The-
ories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
E
. R. DODDS. Professor, University of Oxford. Prog-
ress in Classical
Antiquity.
ALAN DONAGAN. Professor of Philosophy, Uni-
versity of Chicago. Determinism in History.
WILLIS DONEY. Professor of Philosophy, Dart-
mouth College. Causation in the
Seventeenth Century.
JACQUES DROZ. Professor, Sorbonne. Romanti-
cism in Political Thought.
RENÉ DUBOS. Professor, Rockefeller University.
Environment.
WAYNE DYNES. Assistant Professor, Columbia
University.
Concept of Gothic.
ABRAHAM EDEL. Distinguished Professor of Phi-
losophy, Graduate Center, City University
of New
York. Happiness and Pleasure; Right and Good.
MIRCEA ELIADE. University of Chicago. Myth
in
the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
JULIUS A. ELIAS. Associate Professor of Philoso-
phy, City College, City University of
New York. Art
and Play.
ALVAR ELLEGÅRD. Gothenburg University.
Study of Language.
ROGER L. EMERSON. The Institute for Advanced
Study in
the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
Deism; Utopia.
AUSTIN FARRER.† Free Will in Theology.
HERBERT FEIGL. Regents' Professor of Philoso-
phy Emeritus, University of Minnesota; Director, Min-
nesota Center for the Philosophy of Science (1953-71).
Positivism in the Twentieth Century (Logical Empiri-
cism).
BLOSSOM FEINSTEIN. Assistant Professor of
English, C.
W. Post College, Long Island University.
Hermeticism.
BURTON FELDMAN. Professor, University of
Denver. Myth in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth
Centuries.
DAVID FELLMAN. Vilas Professor of Political
Science,
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Academic
Freedom;
Constitutionalism.
FREDERICK FERRÉ. Charles A. Dana Professor
of
Philosophy, Dickinson College. Design Argument;
Metaphor in Religious Discourse.
GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY.
Harmony or Rap-
ture in
Music.
JOHN FISHER. Professor of Philosophy, Temple
University. Platonism in Philosophy and Poetry.
ANGUS FLETCHER. Professor of English, State
University
of New York at Buffalo. Allegory in Literary
History.
ELIZABETH FLOWER. University of Pennsyl-
vania. Ethics of Peace.
PAUL FORIERS. Professor, and Dean of the Law
School,
University of Brussels. Natural Law and Natu-
ral Rights.
MORRIS D. FORKOSCH. Professor, University
of San Diego
Law School. Justice; Due Process in Law;
Equal Protection
in Law.
LIA FORMIGARI. Professor, Philosophy of Lan-
guage, University of Messina. Chain of
Being; Linguis-
tic Theories in British
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy.
WILLIAM K. FRANKENA. Professor of Philoso-
phy, University of Michigan. Education.
WOLFGANG G. FRIEDMANN.† Property.
DAVID FURLEY. Princeton University. Rationality
among the Greeks and Romans.
JOAN KELLY GADOL. City College, City Univer-
sity of New York. Universal Man.
PATRICK GARDINER. Fellow and Tutor of Phi-
losophy, Magdalen College, University of Oxford.
Causation in History.
CHARLES EDWARD GAUSS. Formerly Elton
Professor of
Philosophy, George Washington Univer-
sity.
Empathy.
HILDA GEIRINGER. Professor Emeritus of Math-
ematics, Harvard University. Probability: Objective
Theory.
NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN.
Distin-
guished Professor of Economics,
Vanderbilt University.
Utility and Value in Economic Thought.
DIETRICH GERHARD. Professor Emeritus,
Washington
University and University of Cologne.
Periodization in History.
FELIX GILBERT. Professor, School of Historical
Studies,
Institute for Advanced Study. Machiavellism;
Revolution.
LANGDON GILKEY. Professor of Theology, Di-
vinity School, University of Chicago. Idea of God since
1800.
MORRIS GINSBERG.† Progress in the Modern Era.
CLARENCE J. GLACKEN. Professor of Geogra-
phy, University of California at Berkeley. Environment
and Culture.
BENTLEY GLASS. Distinguished Professor of Biol-
ogy, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Genetic Continuity.
THOMAS A. GOUDGE. Professor of Philosophy,
University
of Toronto. Evolutionism.
JOHN GRAHAM. Associate Professor, University
of
Virginia. Ut pictura poesis.
ROBERT M. GRANT. Professor of New Testament
and Early
Christianity, Divinity School, University of
Chicago. Gnosticism.
STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD. Professor of History,
Brown
University. Democracy.
MOSHE GREENBERG. Professor of Bible,
Hebrew University.
Prophecy in Hebrew Scripture.
G. M. A. GRUBE. University of Toronto. Rhetoric
and Literary Theory in Platonism.
GERALD J. GRUMAN, M.D. Special Research
Fellow, Wayne
State University; Center for Studies of
Suicide Prevention; National
Institute of Mental
Health. Longevity.
HENRY GUERLAC. Goldwin Smith Professor of
the History
of Science, Cornell University. Newton
and the Method of
Analysis.
JAMES GUTMANN. Professor Emeritus of Philos-
ophy, Columbia University. Romanticism in Post-
Kantian
Philosophy.
JAMES HAAR. Professor of Music, New York Uni-
versity. Pythagorean
Harmony of the Universe.
DAVID G. HALE. Associate Professor of English,
State
University of New York at Brockport. Analogy
of the Body
Politic.
REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN. Professor, Direc-
tor of the Music Seminar, University of Heidelberg.
Music as a Demonic Art; Music as a Divine Art.
FREDERICK HARD. Professor of English Litera-
ture, University of California at Santa Cruz. Myth in
English Literature: Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Cen-
turies.
DENY'S HAY. Professor of Medieval History, Uni-
versity of Edinburgh. Idea of Renaissance.
R. W. HEPBURN. Professor of Philosophy, Univer-
sity of Edinburgh. Cosmic Fall.
PETER HERDE. Professor of History and Director
of the
Historical Seminar, University of Frankfurt.
Humanism in Italy.
RONALD HILTON. Professor, Stanford University;
Executive Director, California Institute of Interna-
tional Studies. Positivism in Latin
America.
HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD. Professor of Lin-
guistics, University of Pennsylvania. Linguistics.
BANESH HOFFMANN. Professor of Mathematics,
Queens
College, City University of New York. Relativ-
ity.
RAGNAR HÜISTAD. Assistant Professor, Univer-
sity of Uppsala. Cynicism.
DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND. Professor of
Church History,
McCormick Theological Seminary.
Heresy, Renaissance and Later.
SIDNEY HOOK. Professor Emeritus, New York
University.
Marxism.
PAMELA M. HUBY. Senior Lecturer in Philosophy,
University of Liverpool. Epicureanism and Free
Will.
GRAHAM HUGHES. Professor of Law, New York
University.
Concept of Law.
GEORG G. IGGERS. Professor of History, State
University
of New York at Buffalo. Historicism.
DAVID IRWIN. Head of Department of History
of Art,
University of Aberdeen. Neo-Classicism in Art.
CARL T. JACKSON. Associate Professor of History,
University of Texas, El Paso. Oriental Ideas in Ameri-
can Thought.
MAX JAMMER. Professor of Physics, Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity. Entropy;
Indeterminacy in Physics.
H. W. JANSON. Professor of Fine Arts, New York
University. Chance Images.
IREDELL JENKINS. University of Alabama. Art
for Art's Sake.
HAROLD J. JOHNSON. Professor of Philosophy,
University
of Western Ontario. Changing Concepts of
Matter from
Antiquity to Newton.
DAVID JORAVSKY. Professor of History, North-
western University. Inheritance of Acquired Charac-
teristics (Lamarckian).
CHARLES H. KAHN. Professor of Philosophy,
University of
Pennsylvania. Pre-Platonic Conceptions
of Human
Nature.
WALTER KAISER. Professor of English and Com-
parative Literature, Harvard University.
Wisdom of
the Fool.
ROBERT H. KARGON. Associate Professor of the
History of
Science, The Johns Hopkins University.
Atomism in the Seventeenth Century.
STUART A. KAUFFMAN, M.D. Assistant Profes-
sor, Department of Theoretical Biology and Depart-
ment of Medicine, University of
Chicago. Biological
Homologies and Analogies.
MAURICE KENDALL. Chairman, Scientific Con-
trol Systems, London. Chance.
ALVIN B. KERNAN. Professor of English, Yale
University.
Satire.
R. K. KINDERSLEY. St. Anthony's College, Uni-
versity of Oxford. Marxist Revisionism from Bernstein
to Modern Forms.
ROBERT M. KINGDON. Professor of History,
University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Determinism in
Theology:
Predestination.
FRANK H. KNIGHT.† Economic History.
NORMAN D. KNOX.† Irony.
HANS KOHN.† Nationalism.
MILTON R. KONVITZ. Professor of Law and Pro-
fessor of Industrial and Labor Relations,
Cornell Uni-
versity. Equity in Law and Ethics; Loyalty.
STEPHAN KÜRNER. Professor of Philosophy,
University of Bristol and Yale University. Necessity.
LEONARD KRIEGER. University Professor, Uni-
versity of Chicago. Authority.
WARREN F. KUEHL. Professor of History, Uni-
versity of Akron. International Peace.
ELISABETH LABROUSSE. Maître de Recherche,
Centre de la Recherche Scientifique. Religious Toler-
ation.
DONALD F. LACH. B. E
. Schmitt Professor of
Modern
History, University of Chicago. China in
Western Thought
and Culture.
SANFORD A. LAKOFF. Professor of Political Sci-
ence, University of Toronto. Socialism from Antiquity
to Marx.
GORDON LEFF. Professor of History, University
of York.
Heresy in the Middle Ages; Prophecy in the
Middle
Ages.
ARTHUR LEHNING. International Institute of
Social
History, Amsterdam. Anarchism.
SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN. Department of Phi-
losophy, London School of Economics. Certainty since
the Seventeenth Century.
HARRY LEVIN. Irving Babbitt Professor of Com-
parative Literature, Harvard University.
Motif.
MICHAEL LEVIN. Lecturer, Department of Polit-
ical Science, University College of Wales. Social Con-
tract.
R. C. LEWONTIN. Louis Block Professor of Bio-
logical Sciences, University of Chicago.
Biological
Models.
GEORGE LICHTHEIM.
Historical and Dialectical
Materialism.
G. E
. R. LLOYD. University Lecturer, University
of
Cambridge. Analogy in Early Greek Thought.
LEROY E
. LOEMKER. Professor Emeritus of Phi-
losophy, Emory University. Perennial Philosophy;
Theodicy.
ANTHONY A. LONG. Reader in Greek and Latin,
University
College, London. Psychological Ideas in
Antiquity; Ethics
of Stoicism.
EDWARD E
. LOWINSKY. Ferdinand Schevill Dis-
tinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago.
Musical Genius.
STEVEN LUKES. Fellow and Tutor in Politics,
Balliol
College, University of Oxford. Types of Indi-
vidualism.
DAVID McLELLAN. Senior Lecturer in Politics,
University
of Kent. Alienation in Hegel and Marx.
ROBERT McRAE. Professor, Department of Phi-
losophy, University of Toronto. Unity of Science from
Plato to Kant.
EDWARD H. MADDEN. Professor of Philosophy,
State
University of New York at Buffalo. Civil Disobe-
dience.
WILLIAM A. MADDEN. Professor of English,
University of
Minnesota. Victorian Sensibility and
Sentiment.
ERNST MORITZ MANASSE. Chairman, Depart-
ment of Latin and Philosophy, North Carolina
Central
University. Platonism since the
Enlightenment.
ANTHONY MANSER. Professor of Philosophy,
University of
Southampton. Existentialism.
MICHAEL E
. MARMURA. Professor, Department
of Islamic
Studies, University of Toronto. Causation
in Islamic
Thought.
GERHARD MASUR. Professor Emeritus of His-
tory, Sweet Briar College and University of Berlin.
Crisis in History.
ARMAND MAURER. Professor of Philosophy,
Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies and Univer-
sity of Toronto. Analogy in Patristic and Medieval
Thought.
ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO. University College,
London. Freedom of Speech in Antiquity; Impiety in
the Classical
World.
D. H. MONRO. Professor of Philosophy, Monash
University. Relativism in Ethics; Utilitarianism.
MICHAEL MORAN. Lecturer in Philosophy,
Chairman of
Intellectual History, School of European
Studies, University of Sussex. Metaphysical Imagina-
tion.
OSKAR MORGENSTERN. Professor of Econom-
ics, New York University. Game
Theory.
HERBERT MORRIS. Professor of Law and Philos-
ophy, University of California at Los Angeles. Legal
Responsibility.
LLOYD MOTZ. Professor, Columbia University.
Cosmology since 1850.
FERNAND-LUCIEN MUELLER. Professor, Uni-
versity of Geneva; Secrétaire
général des Rencontres
Internationales de
Genève; Member of Executive
Council, Société
Européenne de Culture. Psychological
Schools in
European Thought.
THOMAS MUNRO. Professor Emeritus of Art,
Case Western
Reserve University; formerly Curator of
Education, Cleveland Museum of Art.
Impressionism
in Art.
MILTON C. NAHM. Professor of Philosophy,
Leslie Clark
Professor of the Humanities, Bryn Mawr
College. Creativity in Art.
HAJIME NAKAMURA. University of Tokyo. Bud-
dhism.
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR. Professor of Philosophy
and Dean,
Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Tehran
University. Islamic Conception of Intellectual Life.
JOHN CHARLES NELSON. Professor, Columbia
University.
Platonism in the Renaissance.
J. P. NETTL.† Social Democracy
in Germany and
Revisionism.
MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON. William Peter-
field Trent Professor Emeritus, Department of English
and Comparative Literature, Columbia University.
Cosmic Voyages; Literary Attitudes Toward Mountains;
Newton's Opticks and Eighteenth-Century Imagina-
tion; Sublime in External Nature;
Virtuoso.
KAI NIELSEN. Professor of Philosophy, University
of
Calgary. Agnosticism.
HELEN F. NORTH. Professor of Classics, Swarth-
more College. Temperance (Sōphrosynē) and the
Canon
of the Cardinal Virtues.
FRITZ NOVOTNY. Professor, formerly Director of
Üsterreichische Galerie, Vienna. Naturalism in
Art.
WALTER JACKSON ONG, S.J. Professor of
English and
Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry,
Saint Louis University. Ramism.
JANE OPPENHEIMER. Class of 1897 Professor of
Biology,
Bryn Mawr College. Recapitulation.
GIAN NAPOLEONE GIORDANO ORSINI.
Pro-
fessor of Comparative Literature,
University of Wis-
consin, Madison. Organicism.
MARTIN OSTWALD. Professor of Classics, Swarth-
more College and University of
Pennsylvania. Ancient
Greek Ideas of Law.
WILLARD GURDON OXTOBY. Professor of Reli-
gious Studies and Near Eastern Studies, University
of
Toronto. Holy (The
Sacred).
CLAUDE V. PALISCA. Professor of the History of
Music,
Yale University. Music and Science.
R. R. PALMER. Professor of History, Yale Univer-
sity. Equality.
HELLMUT O. PAPPE. Professor Emeritus of Law,
Reader in
the History of Social Thought, University
of Sussex. Enlightenment.
JOHN PASSMORE. Professor of Philosophy, Re-
search School of Social Sciences, Australian National
University. Perfectibility of Man.
C. A. PATRIDES. Reader in English Literature,
University of York. Hierarchy and Order.
JAROSLAV PELIKAN. Professor of Religious Stud-
ies, Yale University. Pietism.
STEPHEN C. PEPPER.† Metaphor in Philosophy.
CHAIM PERELMAN. Professor, University of
Brussels;
formerly Dean of the School of Philosophy
and Letters. Natural Law and Natural Rights.
R. S. PETERS. Professor of Philosophy of Edu-
cation, University of London Institute of Education.
Behaviorism.
SIMONE PÉTREMENT. Agrégée de
Philosophie,
Docteur ès Lettres, Conservateur à la
Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris. Dualism in
Philosophy and Religion.
JAMES PHILIP. Dean of Arts and Science,
Bishop's
University. Pythagorean Doctrines to 300 B.C.
MARTIN PINE. Assistant Professor of History,
Queens
College, City University of New York. Double
Truth.
DAVID PINGREE. Professor, Brown University.
Astrology.
JOHN PLAMENATZ. Liberalism.
RICHARD H. POPKIN. Professor of Philosophy,
Lehman
College, City University of New York. Skepti-
cism in Modern Thought.
GAINES POST. Professor Emeritus of History,
Princeton
University. Ancient Roman Ideas of Law;
Medieval and
Renaissance Ideas of Nation.
D. D. RAPHAEL. Professor of Philosophy, Univer-
sity of Reading. Moral Sense.
JOHN RATTÉ. Associate Professor of History, Am-
herst College. Modernism in
the Christian Church.
MOSTAFA REJAI. Professor of Political Science,
Miami
University. Ideology.
MELVIN RICHTER. Professor of Political Science,
Hunter
College and Graduate Center, City University
of New York. Despotism.
VASCO RONCHI. Professor, President of National
Institute of Optics, Arcetri. Optics and Vision.
THEODORE ROPP. Professor of History, Duke
University.
War and Militarism.
EDWARD ROSEN. City College, City University
of New
York. Cosmology from Antiquity to 1850.
PAOLO ROSSI. Professor, Università degli Studi
di
Firenze. Baconianism.
NATHAN ROTENSTREICH. Ahad Haam Profes-
sor of Philosophy, Hebrew University. Volksgeist;
Zeitgeist.
R. A. SAYCE. Reader in French Literature, Worces-
ter College, University of Oxford. Style in Literature.
WALTER SCHMITHALS. Eschatology.
HERBERT W. SCHNEIDER. Professor Emeritus
of Philosophy,
Columbia University and Claremont
Graduate School. Religious Enlightenment in Ameri-
can
Thought.
PIERRE-MAXIME SCHUHL. Professor, Sorbonne;
Membre de
L'Institut de France. Myth in Antiquity.
CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA. Professor, Lehrstuhl für
Geschichte der exakten Wissenschaften und der Tech-
nik an der Technischen, University of Berlin. Number.
JERROLD E
. SEIGEL. Associate Professor of His-
tory, Princeton University. Virtù
in and since the
Renaissance.
JEAN SEZNEC. Marshal Foch Professor of French
Literature, University of Oxford. Myth in the Middle
Ages
and the Renaissance.
JUDITH N. SHKLAR. Harvard University. General
Will.
WALTER SIMON.† Positivism in Europe to 1900.
W. SLUCKIN. Professor of Psychology, University
of
Leicester. Imprinting and Learning Early in Life.
T. B. SMITH. Professor, University of Edinburgh.
Legal Precedent.
BORIS SOUVARINE. Institut d'Histoire Sociale.
Ideology of Soviet Communism.
PIERRE SPEZIALI. Professor of Mathematics,
Collège Voltaire de Genève; also associated with Uni-
versity of Geneva. Classification of the Sciences.
LEWIS W. SPITZ. Professor of History, Stanford
University. Reformation.
WERNER STARK. Professor of Sociology, Fordham
University. Casuistry.
PETER N. STEARNS. Professor, Rutgers, The State
University, New Brunswick. Protest Movements.
PETER STEIN. Regius Professor of Civil Law, Uni-
versity of Cambridge. Common Law.
TOM TASHIRO. City College, City University of
New York.
Ambiguity as Aesthetic Principle.
W. TATARKIEWICZ. Professor, University of War-
saw; Member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Let-
ters; Visiting Mills Professor, University of
California
at Berkeley (1967-68). Classification of the
Arts; Form
in the History of Aesthetics; Mimesis.
OWSEI TEMKIN. Professor Emeritus of the His-
tory of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University.
Health and Disease.
E
. N. TIGERSTEDT. Professor of Comparative
Literature,
University of Stockholm. Poetry and Poetics
from
Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century.
GIORGIO TONELLI. Professor of Philosophy,
State
University of New York at Binghamton. Genius
from the
Renaissance to 1770; Ideal in Philosophy from
the Renaissance to 1780;
Taste in the History of Aes-
thetics from
the Renaissance to 1770.
HELEN P. TRIMPI. Lecturer in English, Stanford
University. Demonology; Witchcraft.
CHARLES TRINKAUS. University of Michigan.
Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man.
RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF. McManis Professor of
Philosophy,
Rice University. Problem of Evil.
ERNEST TUVESON. Professor of English, Univer-
sity of California at Berkeley. Alienation in Christian
Theology; Millenarianism.
HÉLÈNE L. TUZET. Doctor in Comparative
Lit-
erature, University of Poitiers. Cosmic Images.
FRANCIS LEE UTLEY. Professor of English, Ohio
State
University. Myth in Biblical Times.
HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN. Professor of Philoso-
phy, Hanover College. Certainty in
Seventeenth-
Century
Thought.
A. G. M. VAN MELSEN. Professor of Philos-
ophy, President of the University, University of
Nijmegen. Atomism: Antiquity to the Seventeenth
Century.
ARAM VARTANIAN. Professor of French, New
York
University. Man-Machine from the Greeks to the
Computer;
Spontaneous Generation.
RUDOLF VIERHAUS. Professor, Director of Max-
Planck-Institut für
Geschichte, Göttingen. Con-
servatism.
KURT VON FRITZ. Professor Emeritus, University
of
Munich. The Influence of Ideas on Ancient Greek
Historiography.
PETER VORZIMMER. Professor of History, Tem-
ple University. Inheritance through
Pangenesis.
JEAN WAHL. Professor, Sorbonne. Irrationalism in
the History of Philosophy.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE. Professor of History and
Philosophy
of Science. The Catholic University of
America. Experimental Science and Mechanics in the
Middle Ages.
BERNARD WEINBERG. Robert Maynard
Hutchins Distinguished
Service Professor, Department
of Romance Languages, University of Chicago.
Rheto-
ric after
Plato.
JULIUS WEINBERG.† Abstraction
in the Forma-
tion of Concepts;
Causation.
HERBERT WEISINGER. Professor of English,
Dean of the
Graduate School, State University of New
York at Stony Brook. Renaissance Literature and His-
toriography.
ULRICH WEISSTEIN. Professor of German and
of
Comparative Literature, Indiana University. Ex-
pressionism in Literature.
RENÉ WELLEK. Sterling Professor of Compara-
tive Literature, Yale University. Baroque in Literature;
Classicism in Literature;
Literary Criticism; Evolution
of Literature; Literature and Its
Cognates; Periodiza-
tion in Literary
History; Realism in Literature; Ro-
manticism in Literature; Symbol and Symbolism in
Literature.
RULON WELLS. Yale University. Uniformitari-
anism in
Linguistics.
G. J. WHITROW. University of London. Time
and
Measurement.
PHILIP P. WIENER. Editor, Journal of the
History
of Ideas, Temple University. Pragmatism.
RAYMOND L. WILDER. Professor Emeritus, Uni-
versity of Michigan. Relativity of Standards of Mathe-
matical Rigor.
LEONARD G. WILSON. Professor of the History
of
Medicine, University of Minnesota. Uniformitari-
anism and
Catastrophism.
RUDOLF WITTKOWER.† Genius:
Individualism
in Art and Artists.
JOHN W. YOLTON. Professor and Chairman, De-
partment of Philosophy, York University,
Toronto. Ap-
pearance and
Reality.
ROBERT M. YOUNG. Director, Wellcome Unit for
the
History of Medicine, Fellow of King's College,
University of Cambridge. Association of Ideas.
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