John Herman Randall, Jr.
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Randall's Life and Career
John Herman Randall, Jr. was born on 14 February 1899 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Randall attended Columbia University where he received a BA in 1918, an MA in 1919, and a PhD in philosophy in 1922. He studied with John Dewey, F.J.E. Woodbridge, John J. Coss, and Wendell T. Bush. He began teaching philosophy at Columbia in 1920, where he was a prominent pragmatist philosopher for many decades. Randall became the first Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy in 1951, and was elected President of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division in 1956-57. Randall retired in 1967, and died on 1 December 1980 in New York City.
Bibliography
This bibliography is based on the one by John P. Anton, covering the years of 1919 to 1966, that is included in Naturalism and Historical Understanding: Essays on the Philosophy of John Herman Randall, Jr., edited by John P. Anton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. 289-312. Several errors and duplications have been corrected, a few more recent writings have been added, and the list is now in chronological order. At the end is a brief list of works about Randall.
Neokantian Social Philosophy in Germany and France: The Critical Method Applied to the Philosophy of Control. M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, 1919.
"Instrumentalism and Mythology." Journal of Philosophy 16.12 (5 June 1919): 309-324.
"Review of E. Troilo, E., Figuri e Studii di storia della Filosofia." Journal of Philosophy 16.18 (28 August 1919): 501-502.
"Review of Henry Taylor, Prophets, Poets and Philosophers of the Ancient World." Journal of Philosophy 17.18 (8 April 1920): 220-222.
"Review of Eugenio Rignano, Psychologie du Raisonnement." Journal of Philosophy 18.12 (9 June 1921): 332-334.
"The Really Real." Journal of Philosophy 17.13 (17 June 1920): 337-345.
"Theodore Flournoy." Obituary. Journal of Philosophy 18.4 (17 February 1921): 110-112.
The Problem of Group Responsibility to Society: An Interpretation of the History of American Labor. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1922.
"Emile Boutroux." Obituary. Journal of Philosophy 19.1 (5 January 1922): 26-28.
An Introduction to Reflective Thinking. With Herbert W. Schneider and James Gutmann. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 351 pp.
"Review of Charles C. Josey, The Social Philosophy of Instinct." Journal of Philosophy 20.18 (30 August 1923): 494-497.
"Review of Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion, trans. by Morris Ginsberg." Journal of Philosophy 20.25 (6 December 1923): 696-697.
"Review of Henri Busson, Les sources et la développment du rationalisme dans la littérature française de la renaissance (1533-1601)." Journal of Philosophy 20.25 (6 December 1923): 697.
"Review of Arthur A. Luce, Bergson's Doctrine of Intuition, and Firmin Nicolardot, Un Pseudonyme Bergsonien?" Journal of Philosophy 20.26 (20 December 1923): 718-719.
"Review of Edme Tassy, La Philosophie Constructive." Journal of Philosophy 20.26 (20 December 1923): 719.
The Western Mind: Its Origins and Development, 2 vols. New York, Columbia University Press, 1924. Reprinted as The Making of the Modern Mind. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1926. x + 653 pp. Revised edition, The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1940). xii + 696 pp. Translated into Spanish (Buenos Aires: 1952), Arabic (Cairo: 1956), and Urdu (Lahore, Pakistan: 1965).
"The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association" Journal of Philosophy 21.2 (17 January 1924): 40-51.
"Review of J. Maréchal, Le Point de départ de la metaphysique, Cahier 1-2." Journal of Philosophy 21.3 (31 January 1924): 74-76.
"Review of Paul Masson-Oursel, La Philosophie comparée." Journal of Philosophy 21.9 (24 April 1924): 241-244.
"Religio Mathematici: The Geometrical World of Malebranche." In Studies in the History of Ideas, Vol. 2 (New York, Columbia University Press, 1925), pp. 183-218.
"Samuel Gompers – Business Unionist." The Standard 11.5 (January 1925): 140-143.
"American Labor – What of the Future." The Standard 11.6 (February 1925): 182-186.
"Law and Ethics." Review of Benjamin Cardozo, The Growth of the Law. The Standard 12.1 (July 1925): 21-23.
"The 25th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association." Journal of Philosophy 23.2 (21 January 1926): 34-46.
"Gentlemanly Ethics." Review of Stephen Ward, Ethics: An Historical Introduction. The Standard 12.7 (March 1926): 229.
"Education as Propaganda." In Adult Education vs. Worker's Education, edited by a Committee of Local # 189, American Federation of Teachers. Fourth Annual Conference, 18-20 February 1927. Brookwood, Katonah, New York: American Federation of Teachers, 1927), pp. 77-83.
"The Public and Its Problems." A discussion of John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems. World Unity 1.2 (November 1927): 129-133.
"The Science of Man." World Unity 1.3 (December, 1927): 209-215.
"The Uses of History." Review of James Breasted, The Conquest of Civilization, and James Robinson, The Ordeal of Civilization." Survey Graphic, 1 February 1927.
"Faith in Science." Review of Woodbridge Riley, From Myth to Reason." The Saturday Review of Literature, 18 June 1927.
"Reading List of Current Books on World Unity." Classified reading lists of books on world unity edited by JHR in vols. 1 and 6 of World Unity...Interpreting the Spirit of the New Age (New York: World Unity Publishing Corp., 1927-1935).
"Nationalism and Economic World Unity." A discussion of François Delaisi's Political Myths and Economic Realities. World Unity 1.4 (January 1928): 281-287.
"The Unification of the Social Sciences." World Unity 1.5 (February 1928): 354-358.
"Outstanding Books of the Season." World Unity 2.1 (April 1928): 65-71.
"Peace – TheCondition of Survival." A discussion of Henry N. Brailsford's Olives of Endless Age. World Unity 2.2 (May 1928): 135-140.
"Science and the Educated Man." The New Student (New York) 7.34 (23 May 1928): 1 ff.
"The Rainbow of Human Cultures." A discussion of Roland Dixon's The Building of Cultures and Charles Ellwood's Cultural Evolution. World Unity 2.3 (June 1928): 212-217.
"The Problems of Religion in the Modern World." A discussion of Reinhold Niebuhr's Does Civilization Need Religion? World Unity 2.4 (July 1928): 285-291.
"The Cooperation of Europe." A discussion of John Spencer Bassett's The League of Nations. World Unity 2.5 (August 1928): 359-361.
"Toward Pan-Europeanism." A discussion of Count Herman Keyserling's Europe. World Unity 2.6 (September 1928): 422-425.
"The Future of Christianity." A discussion of Charles Guignebert's Christianity Past and Present. World Unity 3.1 (October 1928): 67-73.
"Realpolitik and the Realistic Mind." A discussion of Herman Stegemann's The Mirage of Versailles and Alfred Fabre-Luce's Locarno: The Reality. World Unity 3.2 (November 1928): 132-139.
"Philosophy for an Industrial Civilization." A discussion of Charles A. Beard (ed.) Whither Mankind? World Unity 3.3 (December 1928): 201-209.
Our Changing Civilization: How Science and the Machine are Reconstructing Modern Life. London: G. Allen & Unwin; New York, F. A. Stokes Company, 1929. vii + 362 pp. Translated into German (Stuttgart: 1932).
Religion and the Modern World. With his father John Herman Randall. New York: F. A. Stokes; London, William and Norgate, 1929. xii + 249 pp.
"Dualism in Metaphysics and Practical Philosophy." In Essays in Honor of John Dewey on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, ed. John J. Coss (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929), pp. 306-323.
"Review of Martha Ornstein, The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century." American Historical Review 34 (January 1929): 386.
"Books on the New Civilization." World Unity 3.4 (January 1929): 274-276.
"The Reconstruction of Religious Thought." A discussion of Gerald Smith's Religious Thought in the Last Quarter-Century, Harry Barnes' Living in the Twentieth Century, William Wallace's The Scientific World View, and Roy Sellars' Religion Coming of Age. World Unity 3.5 (February 1929): 347-356.
"The Meaning of the Pact of Paris." A discussion of James T. Shotwell's War as an Instrument of National Policy. World Unity 4.2 (May 1929): 150-155.
"Review of John Dewey, Characters and Events: Popular Essays in Social and Political Philosophy, ed. Joseph Ratner." New York Evening Post, 18 May 1929.
"Religion's Peril from the Machine Age." In Current History 30.3 (June 1929): 355-362.
"Review of Harry Barnes, Living in the Twentieth Century, and Thomas Jones, Essentials of Civilization." Political Science Quarterly 44.3 (September 1929): 435-438.
"Science and the Educated Man." World Unity 5.2 (November 1929): 120-125.
"The Ordeal of Liberalism." A discussion of Gilbert Murray's The Ordeal of this Generation. World Unity 5.3 (December 1929): 200-207.
"Copernicus." Article in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 4, ed. Edwin R. A. Seligman (New York: Macmillan, 1930), pp. 400-401.
"Pacifism in the Modern World." A discussion of Devere Allen's (ed.) Pacifism in the Modern World. World Unity 5.4 (January 1930): 276-283.
"Scientific Journalism." Review of Baker Brownell, Man and His World: Northwestern University Essays in Contemporary Thought, 12 vols. Saturday Review of Literature, 8 February 1930.
"A Budget of Books." A discussion of Alfred Zimmern's America and Europe, Bernard Joseph's Nationality, Its Nature and Problems, Jackson Ralston's International Arbitration from Athens to Locarno, and John Donaldson's International Economic Relations: A Treatise on World Economy and World Politics. World Unity 5.6 (March 1930): 419-423.
"The Role of Science in Modern Life: What Must Religion Learn from It?" Religious Education 25.2 (February 1930): 107-115.
"The Forces That Are Destroying Traditional Beliefs." Current History Magazine (June 1930): 355-362. Reprinted in Readings in Contemporary Problems in the United States, vol. 11, eds. Horace Taylor and Joseph McGolddrick (New York: Columbia University Press, 1930), pp. 690-700.
"Some Major Characteristics of Our Changing Civilization." Religious Education 25.6 (June 1930): 507-515.
"Review of Victor Francis Calverton and Samuel D. Schmalhausen, eds., The New Generation" Current History 32 (August 1930): 1028.
"Personal Liberty and Social Control." Federal Council Bulletin (September 1930): 9-10.
"Science and Human Imagination." A discussion of John Langdon-Davies' Man and His Universe. World Unity 7.2 (November 1930): 133-139.
"Individuality Through Social Unity." A discussion of John Dewey's Individualism Old and New. World Unity 7.3 (December 1930): 193-201.
"Deism." Article in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, vol. 5, ed. Edwin R. A. Seligman (New York: Macmillan, 1931), pp. 61-63.
"The United States of Europe." A discussion of Edouard Herriot's The United States of Europe. World Unity 7.4 (January 1931): 293-299.
"Humanized Religion." A discussion of Nathaniel Schmidt's The Coming Religion and Abby Hillel Silver's Religion In a Changing World. World Unity 7.6 (March 1931): 428-438.
"Elements of a World Culture." World Unity 8.1 (April 1931): 38-49.
"Religions of the World." A discussion of Carl Clemen (ed.) Religions of the World. World Unity 8.2 (May 1931): 137-140.
"Equality as Equalizing." A discussion of R. H. Tawney's Equality. World Unity 8.3 (June 1931): 209-215.
"The Stages of Nationalism." World Unity 8.5 (August 1931): 353-360.
"Humanism and Humility." The New Humanist 4.6 (September-October 1931): 1-9.
"The Living God – A Power or an Ideal?" The Christian Century 48.45 (11 November 1931): 1418-1421.
"The Latent Idealism of a Materialist: A Review of Santayana's Realm of Matter." Journal of Philosophy 28.24 (19 November 1931): 645-660.
"The Value of Science." A discussion of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook and John Dewey's Philosophy and Civilization. World Unity 9.3 (December 1931): 187-197.
"Review of Cecil Burns, Modern Civilization on Trial." International Journal of Ethics 42.2 (January 1932): 213-215.
"The Stupidity of the Sword." A discussion of Esme Wingfield Stratford's They That Take the Sword. World Unity 9.5 (February 1932): 324-331.
"Nationalism and Reason." A discussion of Norman Angell's The Unseen Assassins. World Unity 9.6 (March 1932): 414-421.
"On the Humanity of Scientists." A discussion of T. Swann Harding's The Degradation of Science. World Unity 10.1 (April 1932): 56-63.
"So Says." Columbia Spectator, 7 September 1932.
"Historical Naturalism." In American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow, ed. by Horace M. Kallen and Sidney Hook (New York: Lee Furman, 1935), pp. 411-432. Reprinted as the "Prologue" in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 1-19.
"Liberalism as Faith in Intelligence." Journal of Philosophy 32.10 (9 May 1935): 253-264.
"Review of Lane Cooper, Aristotle, Galileo, and The Tower of Pisa." Journal of Philosophy 32.21 (10 October 1935): 583-584.
"Art and Religion as Education." The Social Frontier 2.4 (January 1936): 109-113.
"Review of William Heidel, The Heroic Age of Science." Philosophical Review 45.2 (March 1936): 215-217.
"Review of Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science." Christendom (Spring 1936): 551-555.
"This So-Called Revolt against Reason." American Scholar 5 (Summer 1936): 347-360.
"Review of Science and Society: A Marxian Quarterly, Spring 1937." The New York Teacher (Teachers Union of the City of New York), (June 1937): 31-32.
"The Perfection of Rottenness." Review of George Santayana, The Philosophy of Santayana: Selections from the Works of George Santayana, ed. Irwin Edman. The Social Frontier 4.28 (October 1937): 33.
"Review of Joyce Hertzler, The Social Thought of the Ancient Civilizations." American Historical Review 43.1 (October 1937): 81-82.
"Review of Walter Lippmann, Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society." The New York Teacher 3.2 (November 1937): 26.
"Review of Charles Hartshorne, Beyond Humanism: Essays in the New Philosophy of Nature." Journal of Philosophy 34.25 (9 December 1937): 691-693.
"Review of Irwin Edman, Four Ways of Philosophy." New York Herald Tribune Books (26 December 1937): 2.
"Review of Lancelot Hogben, Retreat from Reason." Journal of Philosophy 35.2 (20 January 1938): 51-53.
"Review of Michael Roberts, The Modern Mind." Journal of Philosophy 35.4 (17 February 1938): 104-106.
"Review of Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being." Philosophical Review 47.2 (March 1938): 214-218.
"Review of Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being." Review of Religion 2.3 (March 1938): 343-353.
"On Professor Hartshorne's Reply to J. H. Randall's Review of Hartshorne's Beyond Humanism." Journal of Philosophy 35.5 (3 March 1938): 132-133.
"On the Importance of Being Unprincipled." American Scholar 7.2 (Spring 1938): 131-143.
"Review of Richard Honigswald, Denker der italienischen Renaissance: Gestalten und Probleme." Journal of Philosophy 35.10 (12 May 1938): 378.
"Review of St. Augustine, Concerning the Teacher (De Magistro) and On the Immortality of the Soul (De Immortalitae animae), tr. by G. G. Leckie." Journal of Philosophy 35.11 (26 May 1938): 302-303.
"Review of Friedrich Oesterle, Die Anthropologie des Paracelsus." Journal of Philosophy 35.18 (1 September 1938): 488.
"Review of Folke Leander, Humanism and Naturalism: A Comparative Study of Ernest Seilliere, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More." Journal of Philosophy 35.18 (1 September 1938): 490-491.
"Review of Joseph K. Hart, Mind in Transition." Journal of Philosophy 35.18 (1 September 1938): 497.
"On Understanding the History of Philosophy." Abstract of a paper presented in December 1938. Journal of Philosophy 35.25 (8 December 1938): 681-683.
"Review of Tommaso Campanella, The Defense of Galileo, ed. and trans. by Grant McColley." Journal of Philosophy 35.26 (22 December 1938): 720.
"Dewey's Interpretation of the History of Philosophy." In The Philosophy of John Dewey, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (Evanston, Northwestern University, 1939), pp. 77-102. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 304-327.
"Review of Emile Durkheim, L'Évolution pedagogique en France, vols. 1-2." Journal of Philosophy 36.5 (2 March 1939): 135-136.
"Reply to G. McColley's note on the review of his edition of Campanella's Defense of Galileo." Journal of Philosophy 36.6 (16 March 1939): 158.
"Review of Maurice Mandlebaum, The Problem of Historical Knowledge." Journal of Philosophy 36.16 (3 August 1939): 442-446.
"On Understanding the History of Philosophy." Journal of Philosophy 36.17 (17 August 1939): 460-474. Reprinted as part of Chap. 2 of Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958).
"Review of Etienne Gilson, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages." Journal of Philosophy 36.18 (31 August 1939): 495-496.
"The Paradox of Intellectual Freedom." American Scholar 11 (Winter 1939-40): 5-18. Portions also appeared in
"The Paradox of Intellectual Freedom," The Key Reporter: The Phi Beta Kappa News Magazine 5.1 (Winter 1939-40): 1, 4-5.
"The Religion of Shared Experience." In The Philosopher of the Common Man: Essays in Honor of John Dewey to Celebrate His Eightieth Birthday, ed. Sidney Ratner (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1940), pp. 106-145. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 241-267.
"The Development of Scientific Method in the School of Padua." Journal of the History of Ideas 1 (1940): 177-206. Portions reprinted in Roots of Scientific Thought, ed. Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Noland (New York: Basic Books Publishers, 1957), pp. 139-146. Reprinted in The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1961), with additional Latin footnotes.
"Dean Woodbridge." Columbia University Quarterly 32.4 (December 1940): 324-331.
"Unifying Factors in the Development of Modern Ideas." In Studies in Civilization (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941), pp. 105-118.
"Review of Karl Mannheim, Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction." Journal of the History of Ideas 2.3 (June 1941): 372-381.
"The Study of the Philosophies of the Renaissance." With Paul O. Kristeller. Journal of the History of Ideas 2.4 (October 1941): 449-496.
Philosophy: An Introduction. With Justus Buchler. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1942. xiii + 302 pp. 2nd rev. ed., New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971. xi + 322 pp.
"Newton's Natural Philosophy: Its Problems and Consequences." In Philosophical Essays in Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr., ed. by F. P. Clarke and M. C. Nahm (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1942), pp. 335-357.
"Review of Joseph Gittler, Social Thought Among the Early Greeks." American Historical Review 48.1 (October 1942): 170-171.
"Review of John Nef, The United States and Civilization." American Historical Review 48.2 (January 1943): 346-348.
"Human Destiny – Reinhold Niebuhr, A Symposium." Contributors were Paul Lehmann, Edwin E. Aubrey, JHR, and John C. Bennett. The Union Review 4.2 (March 1943): 18-26.
"Review of Friedrich Solmsen, Plato's Theology." Review of Religion 7.4 (May 1943): 384-389.
"Review of Sidney Hook, The Hero in History." Journal of Philosophy 40.21 (14 October 1943): 575-580.
"Review of Jacques Maritain, Education at the Crossroads." Journal of Philosophy 40.22 (28 October 1943): 609-614.
"Review of Jacques Barzun, Romanticism and the Modern Ego." Journal of Philosophy 40.23 (11 November 1943): 635-639.
"The Nature of Naturalism." In Naturalism and the Human Spirit, ed. by Y. K. Krikorian (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), pp. 354-382.
"The Ethics of Good Usage." Review of Paul A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of G. E. Moore. The Standard 30.6 (March 1944): 172-173.
"Which Are the Liberating Arts?" American Scholar 13.2 (April 1944): 135-148.
Ernst Cassirer, Rousseau, Kant, Goethe: Two Essays by Ernst Cassirer, translated from the German by James Gutmann, Paul Oscar Kristeller, and JHR. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1945.
"The Meaning of Religion for Man." Part 4 of Preface to Philosophy, by William E. Hocking, Brand Blanshard, Charles W. Hendel, and JHR (New York: Macmillan, 1946), pp. 297-410.
Readings in Philosophy. Edited by JHR, Justus Buchler, and Evelyn Shirk. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1946. 3rd ed., New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1972.
Emily Greene Balch of New England, Citizen of the World. Washington, D.C.: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1946). 12 pp.
"Controlling Assumptions in the Practice of American Historians." With George Haines, IV. In Theory and Practice in Historical Study: A Report of the Committee on Historiography, Bulletin 54 (New York: Social Science Research Council, 1946). Reprinted as pp. 37-46 of Chap. 2 in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958).
"To Win Out, Must Humanists Embrace Sin?" The Humanist 4.1 (1946): 20-27.
"Metaphysics, Its Function, Consequences, and Criteria." Abstract of a symposium with William E. Hocking and Sterling P. Lamprecht. Journal of Philosophy 43.3 (31 January 1946): 62-67.
"A Note on Mr. Sheldon's Mind." Journal of Philosophy 43.8 (11 April 1946): 209-214. Portions reprinted as part of Chap. 8 of Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 215-236.
"Metaphysics: Its Function, Consequences, and Criteria." Journal of Philosophy 43.15 (18 July 1946): 401-12. Reprinted as sections 1-3 of Chap. 5 in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 121-137.
"David Hume: Radical Empiricist and Pragmatist." In Freedom and Experience: Essays Presented to Horace M. Kallen, ed. by Sidney Hook and Milton R. Konvitz (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1947), pp. 289-312.
"Emily Greene Balch." The Nation 164 (4 January 1947): 14-15.
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man. Edited by JHR, Ernst Cassirer, and Paul Oskar Kristeller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. Portions reprinted The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1961).
"The Spirit of American Philosophy." In Wellsprings of the American Spirit, ed. F. Ernest Johnson (New York: Institute for Religious and Social Studies, distributed by Harper Bros., 1948), pp. 117-133.
"The Churches and the Liberal Tradition." In Bibliography for Annual American Academy, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 256 (March 1948): 148-164.
"Cassirer's Theory of History as Illustrated in His Treatment of Renaissance Thought." In The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, ed. Paul A. Schilpp (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1949), pp. 689-718. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 271-303.
"Review of Morris R. Cohen, The Meaning of Human History." Journal of the History of Ideas 10 (April 1949): 305-312.
"Review of Leo Strauss, On Tyranny." New York Times Book Review (1 May 1949): 14.
"Review of Fulton Anderson, The Philosophy of Francis Bacon." University of Toronto Quarterly 19.1 (October 1949): 99-103.
"Salute to John Dewey." Survey 85.10 (October 1949): 508-510.
"Review of Hiram Haydn, The Counter-Renaissance." Saturday Review of Literature 33.25 (24 June 1950): 21.
"Review of Nicolas von Cues: Texte seiner philosophischen schriften nach der Ausgabe von Paris 1514, sowie nach der Drucklegung von Basel 1565, vol.1." Journal of Philosophy 47.16 (3 August 1950): 472-473.
"Review of Ernst Cassirer, The Problem of Knowledge, trans. W. H. Woglom and C. W. Hendel." New York Times Book Review (10 September 1950): 27.
"Review of Kathleen Freeman, Greek City-States." New York Times Book Review (17 December 1950): 6.
"Review of Arthur O. Lovejoy, Essays on the History of Ideas." The Kenyon Review 12.1 (Winter 1950): 156-161.
"History and the Social Sciences." In Freedom and Reason, ed. S. W. Baron e.a. (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1951). Reprinted as section 1 of Chap. 1 in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 23-28.
"Some Observations on Contemporary Historical Theory." With Merle Curti, Bert J. Lowenberg and Harold Taylor. Letter to the editor concerning C. M. Destler. American Historical Review 56.2 (January 1951): 450-452.
"Review of Crane Brinton, Ideas and Men." American Historical Review 57.1 (October 1951): 91-94.
"The Ontology of Paul Tillich." In The Theology of Paul Tillich, ed. Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall (New York: Macmillan, 1952), pp. 132-161. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 211-240.
"Philosophy: Seminal Thoughts." Saturday Review 35 (20 September 1952): 19-20.
"What Isaac Newton Started." Introduction to Newton's Philosophy of Nature, edited and arranged with notes by Horace S. Thayer (New York: Hafner, 1953), pp. ix-xvi.
"Review of William Walsh, An Introduction to Philosophy of History." American Historical Review 58.2 (January 1953): 328-329.
"John Dewey, 1859-1952." Journal of Philosophy 50.1 (1 January 1953): 5-13.
"Statement Commenting on the Humanist Manifesto." The Humanist 13.2 (1953): 68.
"The Place of Leonardo da Vinci in the Emergence of Modern Science." Journal of the History of Ideas 14.2 (April 1953): 191-202. Reprinted in The Roots of Scientific Thought, ed. by Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Noland (New York, Basic Books, 1957), pp. 207-218. Also reprinted with Italian texts in The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1961), pp. 117-138.
"Review of Frederick Artz, The Mind of the Middle Ages A.D. 200-1500: A Historical Survey." New York Times Book Review (31 May 1953): 16.
"On Being Rejected." Journal of Philosophy 50.26 (17 December 1953): 797-805. Portion reprinted as section 4 of Chap. 5 in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 137-142.
"Foreword." To Studies in the Renaissance, ed. William Peery (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954).
"George Santayana – Naturalizing the Imagination." Journal of Philosophy 51.2 (21 January 1954): 50-52.
"Review of Plato, The Dialogues of Plato, 4 vols., trans. with analyses and introductions by B. Jowett." Journal of Philosophy 51.2 (21 January 1954): 64-69.
"Symposium: Are Religious Dogmas Cognitive and Meaningful?" Journal of Philosophy 51.5 (4 March 1954): 145-172. Randall' s contribution is on pp. 158-163.
"Review of Patrick Romanell, Verso un Naturalismo Critico: Riflessioni Sulla Recente Filosofia Americana." Journal of Philosophy 51.13 (24 June 1954): 389-390.
"Review of Morris R. Cohen, Reason and Nature, rev. ed., and George Santayana, The Life of Reason, revised in collaboration with Daniel Cory." Journal of Philosophy 51.13 (24 June 1954): 391-393.
"Review of J. J. Rousseau, Political Writings, trans. and ed. by Frederick Watkins, and Plato, Socratic Dialogues, trans. and ed. by W. D. Woodhead." Journal of Philosophy 51.13 (24 June 1954): 393.
"The Wrong and the Bad." Journal of Philosophy 51.24 (25 November 1954): 764-775.
"The World to be Unified." In The Unity of Knowledge, ed. by Lewis Leary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1955), pp. 63-76. Reprinted as "Epilogue: Unifications of Knowledge: What Is the World to Be Unified?" in Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 296-309.
"Review of Morris R. Cohen, American Thought: A Critical Sketch, ed. with a critical foreword by Felix S. Cohen." Jewish Social Studies 17.1 (January 1955): 76-78.
"Review of George Berkeley, Philosophical Writings, ed. by T. E. Jessop, David Hume, Theory of Knowledge, ed. by D. C. Yalden-Thomson, and David Hume, Theory of Politics, ed. by F. Watkins." Journal of Philosophy 52.9 (28 April 1955): 248-249.
"Review of A. N. Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead: An Anthology, selected by F. S. C. Northrop and M. W. Gross." Journal of Philosophy 52.12 (9 June 1955): 333-334.
"Review of Aristotle, The Works of Aristotle, vol. 12: Select Fragments, trans. by D. Ross, and D. J. Allen, The Philosophy of Aristotle." Journal of Philosophy 52.13 (23 June 1955): 358-360.
"Review of Aristotle, The Ethics of Aristotle, trans. by J. A. K. Thompson, and Aristotle, Ethics for English Readers, trans. by H. Rackhan." Journal of Philosophy 52.13 (23 June 1955): 360-364.
"Talking and Looking." Presidential Address delivered before the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, University of Pennsylvania, December 1956. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 30 (1956-57): 5-24.
"Review of Sterling P. Lamprecht, Our Philosophical Traditions: A Brief History of Philosophy in Western Civilization." Journal of Philosophy 53.4 (16 February 1956): 168-174.
"Review of Norman DeWitt, Epicurus and His Philosophy." Journal of Philosophy 53.5 (1 March 1956): 201-202.
"Introduction." To The Faculty of Philosophy: The Bicentennial History of Columbia University (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957), pp. 3-57.
"The Department of Philosophy." Chap. 3 of The Faculty of Philosophy: The Bicentennial History of Columbia University (New York, Columbia University Press, 1957), pp. 102-145.
"Naturalistic Humanism." Chap. 5 of Patterns of Faith in America Today, ed. by F. Ernest Johnson (New York: Harpers, 1957).
"Substance as Process." Review of Metaphysics 10.4 (June 1957): 580-601. Reprinted as part of Chap. 6 of Nature and Historical Experience (New York: Columbia University Press, 1958), pp. 143-194.
Nature and Historical Experience: Essays in Naturalism and in the Theory of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. viii + 336 pp.
The Role of Knowledge in Western Religion. Boston: Starr King Press, 1958. x + 147 pp.
"Padua Aristotelianism: An Appraisal." In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Philosophy (Florence: Sansoni, 1958-61).
"Review of George Boas, Dominant Themes of Modern Philosophy: A History." American Historical Review 63.2 (January 1958): 371-372.
"The Mirror of USSR Philosophizing." Review of Reports and Papers of Representatives of Soviet Philosophical Science at the XII International Congress of Philosophy. Journal of Philosophy 55.23 (6 November 1958): 1019-1028.
Dialogue on John Dewey. Ed. Corliss Lamont. New York: Horizon Press, 1959. JHR was a participant in this informal discussion on Dewey's life and philosophy.
"Foreword." To John Dewey, Dictionary of Education, ed. by Ralph Winn (New York: Philosophical Library, 1959).
"A Humanist Symposium on Metaphysics." Journal of Philosophy 56.2 (15 January 1959): 45-64. Randall's contribution, No. 6 "Epilogue," pp. 55-62.
"John Dewey's Contribution to Scientific Humanism." The Humanist 19.3 (June 1959): 134-138.
"The Ethical Challenge of a Pluralistic Society." Ethical Outlook 45.4 (July-August 1959): 133 ff.
"The Future of John Dewey's Philosophy." Journal of Philosophy 56.26 (17 December 1959): 1005-1010.
"To Control TV Advertising." Letter to the editor of the New York Times, 11 November 1959.
Aristotle. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Reprinted, Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1990. xv + 309 pp.
"Review of Dagobert Runes, Pictorial History of Philosophy, and Bertrand Russell, Wisdom of the West, ed. by Paul Foulkes." Journal of Philosophy 57.11 (26 May 1960): 365-368.
The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science. Series Saggi e Testi of 11 Centro per la Storia della Tradizion Aristotelica nel Veneto of the University of Padua and the Columbia University Seminar on the Renaissance, vol. 1. Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1961. 141 pp.
"Foreword." To Aristotle, Aristotle's Physics, trans. by Richard Hope (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961), pp. v-viii.
"The Changing Impact of Darwin on Philosophy." Journal of the History of Ideas 22.4 (October-December 1961): 435-462.
The Career of Philosophy, vol. 1: From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. New York, Columbia University Press, 1962. xvi + 993 pp.
"Review of Ernst Cassirer, The Logic of the Humanities, trans. by Clarence S. Howe." History and Theory 2.1 (1962): 66-74.
"Review of Friedrich Solmsen, Aristotle's System of the Physical World." Philosophical Review 71.4 (October 1962): 520-523.
"Religious Language." The Humanist 22.6 (November-December 1962): 186.
"Justice, Mercy, Love, Ethics." Review of Paul Ramsey, Nine Modern Moralists. New York Herald Tribune Book Section, 11 December 1962.
How Philosophy Uses Its Past. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. xiv + 106 pp.
"Philosophy and Religion." In The Great Ideas Today, ed. Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler (Chicago, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1963), pp. 227-277.
"The Art of Language and the Linguistic Situation: A Naturalistic Analysis." Journal of Philosophy 60.2 (17 January 1963): 29-56.
"Arthur O. Lovejoy and the History of Ideas." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 23.4 (June 1963): 475-479.
"Romantic Reinterpretations of Religion." Studies in Romanticism 2.4 (Summer 1963): 189-212. Randall notes on p. 189 that "Some of the materials in this essay, which are taken from Book 5, Vol. 2 of The Career of Philosophy in Modern Times, were first set in my Role of Knowledge in Western Religion, 1958: 78-93."
"Foreword." To Emmanuel G. Mesthene, How Language Makes Us Know (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964), pp. vii-ix.
"John H. Randall's Shelf." New York Herald Tribune Book Week (12 January 1964): 32.
"Review of Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle, ed. by Renford Bambrough, Marjorie Grene, A Portrait of Aristotle, Whitney Oats, Aristotle and the Problem of Value, Sir David Ross, Aristotle, James Walsh, Aristotle's Conception of Moral Weakness." The Humanist 24.6 (November-December 1964): 196-197.
The Career of Philosophy, vol. 2: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. xii + 675 pp.
"Introduction." To F. J. E. Woodbridge, Aristotle's Vision of Nature, ed. by JHR with the assistance of Charles H. Kahn and H. A. Larrabee (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965).
"John Stuart Mill and the Working out of Empiricism." Journal of the History of Ideas 26.1 (January-March 1965): 59-88. Reprinted in The Career of Philosophy, vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965).
"Review of Aristote et les problemes de methode, Papers presented at the symposium Aristotelicum, Louvain, 1960." Philosophical Review 74.2 (April 1965): 244-251.
"The University Seminar as a Source of Spiritual Power." American Scholar 34.3 (1965): 452-457. Also published in A Community of Scholars, ed. Frank Tennenbaum (New York: Praeger, 1965), pp. 46-52.
"Review of Reinhold Niebuhr, Man's Nature and His Communities." Journal of Philosophy 63.2 (20 January 1966): 46-53.
"Josiah Royce and American Idealism." Journal of Philosophy 63.3 (3 February 1966): 57-83. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 131-160.
"T. H. Green: The Development of English Thought from J. S. Mill to F. H. Bradley." Journal of the History of Ideas 27.2 (April-June 1966): 217-244. Reprinted as "T. H. Green and Liberal Idealism" in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 65-96.
"Idealistic Social Philosophy and Bernard Bosanquet." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 26.4 (June 1966): 473-502. Reprinted in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 97-130.
"Review of Robert Wolff, et al., A Critique of Pure Tolerance." Journal of Philosophy 63.16 (1 September 1966): 457-465.
"Review of Melvin Richter, The Politics of Conscience: T. H. Green and His Age." Journal of Philosophy 63.16 (1 September 1966): 476-478.
"F. H. Bradley and the Working-out of Absolute Idealism." Journal of the History of Philosophy 5.3 (July 1967): 245-267. Reprinted in expanded form in Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays, ed. Beth J. Singer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), pp. 161-208.
"The Manifold Experience of Augustin." American Scholar 38.1 (Winter 1968):127-134.
Hellenistic Ways of Deliverance and the Making of the Christian Synthesis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. ix + 242 pp.
Plato: Dramatist of the Life of Reason. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. xiv + 274 pp.
Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 3, and Other Essays. Ed. Beth J. Singer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. x + 352 pp.
Selected Works About John Herman Randall, Jr.
Anton, John P., ed. Naturalism and Historical Understanding: Essays on the Philosophy of John Herman Randall, Jr. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967.
Burns, Sister M. Sharon. The Philosophy of Religion of John Herman Randall, Jr.: A Challenge to Christian Theologians. Dissertation, Catholic University of America, 1972.
Kerr, William Osborn. An Examination of John Herman Randall, Jr.’s Philosophy of Religion. Dissertation: State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969.
Kuo, Po-wen. Naturalism and the Interpretation of History. Dissertation, Yale University, 1966.
Morrison, Roy Dennis. Ontology and Naturalism in the Philosophies of John Herman Randall, Jr. and Paul Tillich. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1972.
Shea, William Michael. Intelligence, Intelligibility and God: An Horizon Analysis of the American Naturalist Philosophies of Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and John Herman Randall, Jr. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1973.