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Armour, Leslie, and Elizabeth Trott. The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada 1850–1950 (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981).

Biel, Steven. Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910–1945 (New York: New York University Press, 1992).

Blau, Joseph L. Men and Movements in American Philosophy (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952).

Blau, Joseph L., ed. American Philosophic Addresses, 1700–1900 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1946).

Caws, Peter, ed. Two Centuries of Philosophy in America (London: Blackwell, 1980).

Cohen, Morris R. American Thought: A Critical Sketch (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1954).

Cunningham, G. Watts. The Idealistic Argument in Recent British and American Thought (New York: Century, 1933).

Curti, Merle. The Growth of American Thought (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943).

Curtis, M.M. An Outline of Philosophy in America (Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1896).

Dorrien, Gary. The Remaking of Evangelical Theology (Louisville, Kent.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998).

Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology, vol. 1: Imagining Progressive Religion, 1805–1900 (Louisville, Kent.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).

Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology, vol. 2: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900–1950 (Louisville, Kent.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003).

Fay, Jay W. American Psychologies Before William James (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1939).

Flower, Elizabeth, and Murray G. Murphey. A History of Philosophy in America (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977).

Gray, James. Modern Process Thought (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1982.

Hall, G. Stanley. “On the History of American College Textbooks and Teaching in Logic, Ethics, Psychology, and Allied Subjects,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 9 (1893–94): 137–194.

Hall, G. Stanley. “Philosophy in the United States,” Mind 4 (1879): 89–105.

Harlow, Victor. A Bibliography and Genetic Study of American Realism (Oklahoma City: Harlow Pub. Co., 1931).

Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought, 2nd edn (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955).

Hudson, W.D. A Century of Moral Philosophy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980).

Jones, Adam Leroy. Early American Philosophers (New York: Macmillan, 1898).

Kuklick, Bruce. A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Kuklick, Bruce. Churchmen and Philosophers (New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, 1985).

Kuklick, Bruce. The Rise of American Philosophy (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1977).

Muirhead, John H. The Platonic Tradition in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy: Studies in the History of Idealism in England and America (London: G. Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1931).

Nauman, St. Elmo, Jr. Dictionary of American Philosophy (New York: Philosophical Library, 1973).

Passmore, John. A Hundred Years of Philosophy, 2nd edn (New York: Basic Books, 1966).

Perry, Ralph Barton. Philosophy of the Recent Past (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926). 

Perry, Ralph Barton. Present Philosophical Tendencies (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912).

Porter, Noah. “Philosophy in Great Britain and America,” in History of Philosophy from Thales to the Present Time, by Friedrich Uberweg, trans. George S. Morris (London and New York, 1874), vol. 2, pp. 442–50.

Reck, Andrew. The New American Philosophers (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968).

Reck, Andrew. Recent American Philosophy (New York: Pantheon Books, 1964). 

Riley, I. Woodbridge. American Philosophy: The Early Schools (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1907).

Riley, I. Woodbridge. American Philosophy from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond (New York: Henry Holt, 1915).

Roberts, Jon. Darwinism and the Divine in America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).

Rogers, Arthur K. English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical Survey (New York: Macmillan, 1922).

Ross, Dorothy. The Origins of American Social Science (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

Schneider, Herbert W. A History of American Philosophy, 2nd. edn. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963).

Schneider, Herbert W. Sources of Contemporary Philosophical Realism in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964).

Spiegelberg, Herbert. The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction, 3rd edn (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1971).

Thayer, H. Stanley. Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism, 2nd edn (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981).

Werkmeister, William H. A History of Philosophical Ideas in America (New York: Ronald Press, 1949).

Wiener, Philip. Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949).

AFRICANA: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Edited By K.A. Appiah & H.L. Gates, Jr., New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.

American Biographies, Wheeler Preston. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Reprint. Detroit: Gale Research, 1974.

American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory, many editions, ed. James McKeen Cattell, NY: Bowker, 1906, 1927,1933,1955,1960,1965, etc. An index for 1906-1979 was published with American men and women of science in 1979.

American National Biography, ed. John A. Garrety and Mark C. Carnes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

American Philosophy. Edited by Ralph Winn. NY: Philosophical Library, 1955.

American Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: A Sourcebook, ed. Paul Kurtz, New York: Macmillan, 1966.

American Women Philosophers 1650-1930: Six exemplary thinkers. Edited by Therese Boos Dykeman. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, eds. John Fiske and James G. Wilson. NY: Appleton's. 6 vols., 1886–89; revised with supplementary volume, 1898–99.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

A Bibliography and Genetic Study of American Realism, Victor Harlow, Oklahoma City: Harlow Pub. Co., 1931. New York, Kraus Reprint, 1970.

A Bibliography of Logic, Alonzo Church, Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 1 (1936), pp. 121-218.

Biographical Cyclopedia of American Women. New York: Halvord Publ. Co., 1928.

Biographical Dictionary of Marxism, ed. Robert A. Gorman, London: Mansell and New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Biographical Dictionary of Neo-Marxism, ed. Robert A. Gorman, London: Mansell and New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, ed. Stuart Brown, London: Routledge, 1996.

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. NY: Routledge, 2000.

Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index. Alexandria, Va.: Chadwyck-Healey, 1991.

Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, ed. John S. Bowman. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2^nd. ed., ed. Robert Audi, Cambridge UP, 1999.

The Canadian Encyclopedia, ed. James H. Marsh, 2000.

The Canadian Who’s Who, eds. Charles Roberts and Arthur Tunnell, Toronto, Times Publishing Co, v.1 :1910, v.2: 1937, triennial editions thereafter.

The Canadian Who Was Who: A Standard dictionary of Canadian biography, ed. Charles Roberts and Arthur Tunnell, Toronto, Times Publishing Co, 1934.

Canadian Who's Who Index, 1898-1984, ed. Evelyn McMann, University of Toronto Press, 1986.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary, various editions; 1994 edition ed. Magnus Magnusson.

Churchmen and Philosophers, Bruce Kuklick, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Collier's Encyclopedia, New York: Macmillan, various editions.

A Companion to Aesthetics, ed. David Cooper, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

A Companion to American Thought. ed. Fox and Kloppenburg. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

A Companion to Epistemology, ed. J. Dancy and E. Sosa, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, ed. R. Corsini, New York: John Wiley, 1987.

The Concise Encyclopaedia of Western Philosophy, ed. J. O. Urmson and J. Ree, London: Hutchinson, 1960.

Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Authors and their Works, Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1962-present.

Contemporary Authors First Revision.

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series.

Contemporary American Philosophy, vols I and 11, ed. G. P Adams and W P Montague, New York: Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1930.

Contemporary European Philosophy by I. M. Bochenski, second edition, 1951 (English translation, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965, and New York: Greenwood Press, 1982).

Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, T. E. Hill, New York: Ronald, 1961.

Cumulative Philosophical Book Index. 

Current Biography, New York: H. H. Wilson, various editions.

Darwinism and the Divine in America, Jon Roberts, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.

Diccionario de Filosofia, Jose Ferrater Mora, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, fifth edition, 1984. 

Dictionary of American Biography, ed. Francis S. Drake. 1872.

Dictionary of American Biography, ed. Dumas Malone. New York: Scribner's, 1933, 1943.

Dictionary of American Philosophy. St. Elmo Nauman, Jr. NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1973.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, London: Macmillan, 1966-1998.

Dictionary of Cultural Theorists, Ernest Cashmore, Oxford UP, 1999.

Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Philosophers Since 1900. Columbia, South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002.

A Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Antony Flew, New York: St Martin's Press, revised second edition, 1984.

Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, William L. Reese, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1980. 

Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry, ed. R. M. Goldenson, New York and London: Longmans, 1984.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. G. C. Gillespie, New York: Scribner's, 1970-present.

Dictionary of Twentieth Century World Biography, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Dictionnaire des Philosophes, ed. Denis Huisman, Paris: PUF, 2 vols, 1984.

Dictionnaire des philosophes, Andre Comte-Sponville, Paris : Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1998.

Directory of American Philosophers, Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center.

Directory of American Scholars, New York: R. R. Bowker, 1942-present. 

Dissertation Abstracts. 

Dizionario di filosofia: 2500 voci, 700 bibliografie, tavole cronologiche. Milan: Rizzoli, 1977.

Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier (US), 1995.

Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem: Keter, 1971. 

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Encyclopedia of American Biography, second edition, ed. J. A. Garraty, HarperCollins (US), 1995. 

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, ed. Lynn Nadel. London and New York: Nature Publishing, 2003.

Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence C. and Charlotte Becker, New York: Garland, 1992. 

Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. H. A. R. Gibb et al., second edition, Leiden: Brill, 6 vols, 1960.

Encyclopedia of Phenomenology, ed. Lester Embree. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards, New York: Macmillan & Co., 1967. 

Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, ed. Donald Borchert. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1996.

Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig, London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Psychology, ed. R. Harre and R. Lamb, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983.

English and American Philosophy Since 1800, Arthur Rogers, New York: Macmillan, 1922.

Enzyklopadie Philosophie and Wissenschaftstheorie, ed. Eirgen Mittelstrass, Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut AG, 1980.

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, ed. Isobel Grundy, Virginia Blain and Patricia Clements, Batsford, 1993. 

The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, ed. A. Bullock and O. Stallybrass, London: Fontana, 1977.

The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thinkers, ed. A. Bullock and R. B. Woodings, London: Fontana, 1983.

The Genesis of Modern Process Thought: a historical outline with bibliography, George Lucas, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983.

Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, ed. Hans Burkhardt, Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2 vols, 1991.

Handbook of World Philosophy: Contemporary Developments since 1945, ed. John A. Burr, London: Aldwych Press, 1980.

A History of Philosophical Systems, ed. V. T. A. Ferm, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1950.

A History of American Philosophy, Herbert W Schneider, New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. 

A History of Philosophical Ideas in America, William Werkmeister, New York: Ronald Press, 1949.

History of Philosophy, vol. 9: Maine de Biran to Sartre by F C. Copleston, London: Search Press, 1975. 

History of Philosophy Quarterly

A History of Philosophy in America, Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977

A History of Women Philosophers, 3 vols. Mary Ellen Waithe. Kluwer, 1987-1991

A Hundred Years of Philosophy, John Passmore, London: Duckworth, 1957 

A Hundred Years of Philosophy, Rudolf Metz, trans. J. W Harvey, T. E Jessop and H. Sturt, ed. J. H. Muirhead, London: Allen & Unwin, 1938 (originally published in German, Heidelberg, 1934)

Idealistic Studies

Independent Intellectuals in the United States, 1910-1945, Steven Biel, New York University Press, 1992 

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. D. L. Sills, New York: Macmillan, 1968 

International Who's Who, London: Europa Publications, various editions

International Who's Who of Women, London: Europa Publications, 1992

Journal of the History of Ideas

Journal of the History of Philosophy

Journal of Philosophical Studies

Journal of Philosophy

Journal of Symbolic Logic

Key Thinkers, Past and Present, ed. Jessica Kuper, Routledge, 1987

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, Zurich: Kindler Verlag, 1965 and 1970

Larousse du XXieme siecle, Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1928?53

Latin American philosophy in the twentieth century, Jorge Gracia, Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986.

Makers of Modern Culture: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Justin Wintle, London: Routledge, 1981

Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism, H. S. Thayer, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981

Men and Movements in American Philosophy by Joseph L. Blau, New York: Prentice?Hall, 1952 

Metzler Philosophenlexikon, Stuttgart: J. B. Metzlersche, 1989

Mind

Modern Process Thought, James Gray, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1982

Names in the history of psychology: a biographical sourcebook, ed. Leonard Zusne, NY: John Wiley, 1975

National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Clifton, N.J.: J. T. White, 1893-

National Union Catalog (US)

Natural History

Natural Philosophy

The New American Philosophers, Andrew Reck, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968 

New York Review of Books

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary. Edward T. James, editor. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995

Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R. L. Gregory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987

The Personalist Forum

The Phenomenological Movement. A Historical Introduction, Herbert Spiegelberg, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1971; third, revised edition, 1981 

Philosophen Lexikon, ed. Bernd Lutz, Stuttgart, Metzler, 1995

Philosophen-Lexikon: Leben, Werke and Lehren der Denker, ed. Rudolf Eisler, Berlin, 1912; revised edition, 2 vols, 1937-39 

Philosophenlexikon, ed. W Ziegenfuss and G. Jung, Berlin: Walther de Gruyter, 1950

Philosopher's Index, Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University, various editions 

Philosophes critiques d'eux memes, ed. A Mercier and M. Svilar, Bern, Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1975-

Philosophic der Gegenwart, ed. J. Nida-Rumelin, Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 1991

Philosophical Investigations 

Philosophical Review 

Philosophical Studies 

Philosophical Trends in the Contemporary World, M. F Sciacca, trans. A. Salerno, Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1964

Philosophie der Gegenwart, L. Landgrebe, Bonn: Atheneum, 1992

Philosophinnen Lexion, ed. Ursula I. Meyer, Aachen: ein-Fach-verlag, 1994, 1997

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 

Philosophy East and West 

The Philosophy of Religion, Alan P F. Sell, London: Croom Helm, 1988 

Philosophy of Science 

Philosophy of the Recent Past, Ralph Barton Perry, New York: Scribner's, 1926 

Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, vols. 1-4. Eds. G. A. Kimble, M. Wertheimer, and C. White. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1991-2000

Pragmatism: An Annotated Bibliography, 1898-1940, John Shook, Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1998

Praxis der Mathematik 

Present Philosophical Tendencies, Ralph Perry, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 

Process Studies

The Psychological Register, 3 vols., ed. Carl Murchison. Worcester, Mass.: Clark University Press, 1929-1932.

Reader's Adviser, Bowker (US), fourteenth edition, 1994 

Recent American Philosophy, Andrew Reck, New York: Pantheon Books, 1964 

Recent Philosophers, John Passmore, London: Duckworth, 1985 

Resources for Feminist Research 

The Rise of American Philosophy, Bruce Kuklick, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977

Seances et Travaux de l'Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques

Social Research 

Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, ed. Roland Turner, Chicago: St James Press, second edition, 1987

Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical and Critical Dictionary, ed. Elizabeth Devine et al., London: Macmillan, 1983 

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

Twentieth Century Philosophy, ed. Runes. New York: Greenwood Press, 1947 

Twentieth Century Religious Thought, John Macquarrie, London: SCM Press, revised edition, 1971

Two Centuries of Philosophy in America, ed. Peter Caws. London: Blackwell, 1980.

Webster's American Biographies, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam Webster Inc., various editions

Who's Who, London: A. & C. Black, 1843-present

Who's Who in America, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1899-present

Who's Who in Canada, International Publications Service, 86th edition, 1995

Who's Who in Hell, Warren Smith, NY: Barricade Books, 2000

Who’s Who in Philosophy, ed. Dagobert D. Runes, New York: Philosophical Library, 1942

Who's Who in Religion, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, fourth edition, 1992

Who's who in the humanities: with comments on humanities and contemporary culture, ed. Stephen Husarik, Chicago Biographical Center, 1992-93

Who Was Who in America, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1899-present

Who's Who in the West, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 24th edition, 1993

Who's Who in the World, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, twelfth edition, 1995

Who's Who of Women in Education, ed. Ernest Kay, Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1978.

Women in Psychology: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, ed. Agnes O’Connell, NY: Greenwood, 1990

Women of Modern Science, Edna Yost, NY: Dodd, Mead, 1959

Women Philosophers: A Biocritical Source Book, Ethel M. Kersey, New York: Greenwood Press, 1989

The Writer's Directory, Chicago: St James Press, biennial