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The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race

WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON is a Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Director of the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago. He was educated at Wilberforce and Bowling Green State universities and received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Washington State University in 1966.

Comparative Social Theory

EDWARD O. WILSON is Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science and Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. He was educated at the University of Alabama and Harvard, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor in English at Harvard University. She was educated at Emmanuel College, the University of Louvain, and Boston University, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical […]

Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High – Technology Society

HERBERT A. SIMON’S research has ranged from computer science to psychology, administration, and economics. The thread of continuity through all of his work has been his interest in human decision-making and problem-solving processes and the implications of these processes for social institutions. In the past twenty-five years, he has made extensive use of the computer […]

Evolution and the Social Contract

Brian Skyrms is Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Stanford University. He graduated from Lehigh University with degrees in Economics and Philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow […]

Flourish: Positive Psychology and Positive Interventions

Martin Seligman works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, optimism, and pessimism. He is currently Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of the Positive Psychology Center. He was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1996 by the largest vote in history.

Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command

THOMAS C. SCHELLING did his graduate work at Harvard University immediately after World War II and joined the Marshall Plan, first in Europe and then in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for five years, and became Professor of Economics at Harvard in 1958. Most of his work has been in the study of […]

The Status of Well-Being

THOMAS M. SCANLON JR. is an Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard, where he has taught since 1984. He received his B.A. from Princeton, studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. He taught for many years at Princeton and was a founding editor […]

Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy: The Western Illusion of Human Nature

Marshall Sahlins is Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was educated at the University of Michigan and at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. He taught anthropology at the University of Michigan for sixteen years before moving to Chicago.