This is a one-stop research volume to understanding leading figures in American thought and philosophy.

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
How to use the Encyclopedia
General bibliography
List of contributors
Abbreviations for biographical reference works
Biographical entries A - Z
Name Index

John R. Shook is Research Associate in Philosophy and faculty of the Science and the Public EdM program at the University at Buffalo, USA. Among his books are Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality (2000) and John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit (2010) and A Companion to Pragmatism (2005). He is General Editor of the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers (2012) and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers (2005).