Philip Paul Wiener

Philip Paul Wiener (July 8, 1905 – April 5, 1992) was an American philosopher specializing in pragmatism, Charles S. Peirce, Leibniz, the history and philosophy of science, and the history of ideas. He co-founded the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Early life and education Wiener was born in New York City on July 8, 1905. He was also greatly interested in the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in Morris Raphael Cohen and in Pierre Duhem, and devoted much attention to the history and philosophy of science and to the developing discipline of the history of ideas.

In collaboration with Arthur Oncken Lovejoy he co-founded the Journal of the History of Ideas in 1940 and edited that journal for many years until a few years before his retirement. Leibniz. Selections., Philip P. Wiener, ed., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951 (Modern Students Library). Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Frederic H. Young, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1952. Readings in Philosophy of Science: Introduction to the Foundations and Cultural Aspects of the Sciences, Philip P. Wiener, ed., New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Roots of Scientific Thought: A Cultural Perspective, Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Nolan, eds., New York: Basic Books, 1957. Values in a Universe of Chance: Selected Writings of Charles S. Peirce, Philip P. Wiener, ed., Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1958. Ideas in Cultural Perspective, Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Noland, eds., New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1962. Charles S. Peirce: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance), Philip P. Wiener, ed., New York: Dover Publications, 1966. Renaissance Essays, Philip P. Wiener and Paul O. Kristeller, eds., New York: Harper & Row, 1968 (Harper Torchbooks). Basic Problems of Philosophy, Philip P. Wiener, Daniel J. Bronstein and Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, eds, New York: Prentice-Hall College Division, 1972. Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, Philip P. Wiener et al., eds., New York: Scribner's, c. 1973-1974. 5 volumes. Violence and Aggression in the History of Ideas, Philip P. Wiener and John Fisher, eds., New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

See also: Writings of Professor Philip P. Wiener.

Articles and papers "Notes on Leibniz’s Conception of Logic and Its Historical Context", in: Philosophical Review, Vol. 48 (1939), pp. 567–86. "On Methodology in the Philosophy of History", in: Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 38 (1941). pp. 309–24. "Method in Russell’s Work on Leibniz", in: The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, Paul Schilpp, ed., Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1944, pp. 259–76. "G. M. Beard and Freud on 'American Nervousness'", in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 269–274 "Some Problems and Methods in the History of Ideas", in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1961), pp. 531–548

See also: List of further articles and papers on Google Scholar.