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Title The dictionary of early American philosophers / general editor John R. Shook
Published New York : Continuum, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford quick reference
Oxford quick reference.
Contents V. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z
Summary The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, which contains over 400 entries by nearly 300 authors, provides an account of philosophical thought in the United States and Canada between 1600 and 1860. The label of ""philosopher"" has been broadly applied in this Dictionary to intellectuals who have made philosophical contributions regardless of academic career or professional title. Most figures were not academic philosophers, as few such positions existed then, but they did work on philosophical issues and explored philosophical questions involved in such fields as pedagogy, rhetoric, the a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version
Subject Philosophy, American -- Dictionaries
Philosophy, Canadian -- Dictionaries
Philosophers -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Philosophers -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophers
Philosophy, American
Philosophy, Canadian
Canada
United States
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Biographies
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author Shook, John R.
LC no. 2011534277
ISBN 9780199797745
0199797749
9781441171405
1441171401