Nine Basic Arts by Paul Weiss

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Born in New York City, the son of a laborer (Samuel), Weiss was educated at the City College of New York and Harvard University, where he prepared his doctoral dissertation in the late 1920s under the supervision of Alfred North Whitehead. Paul Weiss has taught at Bryn Mawr College, Yale University, and the Catholic University of America. Founding editor of the Review of Metaphysics and founding first president of the Metaphysical Society of America, Weiss has been the leading advocate of speculative philosophy in the English-speaking world since World War II. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1938 and the Townshend Harris Medal in 1964. Show more