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About the Authors:
John Grier Hibben was born in Peoria, Illinois, on April 19, 1861. He received his B.A. in 1882 from Princeton University,
where he was both president of his class and valedictorian. After attending Princeton Theological Seminary from 1883 to
1886, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1887. He received his A.M. in philosophy in 1885 and his Ph.D. in
philosophy in 1993, both from Princeton University. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1891 as instructor in logic,
later taught psychology and Bible, became full professor of logic in 1897, and served as president of Princeton University
from 1912 to 1932. Among his books are Inductive Logic (1896), The Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to the
Study of Philosophy (1898), Hegel’s Logic: An Essay in Interpretation (1902), Logic, Deductive and Inductive (1905),
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1910), A Defence of Prejudice, and Other Essays (1911), The Higher
Patriotism (1915), and Self-Legislated Obligations (1927). He died in Woodbridge, New Jersey, on May 16, 1933.
Eric v.d. Luft earned his B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy and religion at Bowdoin College in 1974 and his Ph.D. in
philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in 1985. From 1987 to 2006 he was Curator of Historical Collections at SUNY Upstate
Medical University. He has taught at Villanova University, Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, and the College
of Saint Rose, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. Luft has written extensively in philosophy, religion, history, history of
medicine, and nineteenth-century studies. He is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of over 600 publications, including
Hegel, Hinrichs, and Schleiermacher on Feeling and Reason in Religion: The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate (1987);
God, Evil, and Ethics: A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion (2004); A Socialist Manifesto (2007); Die at the Right
Time: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties (2009); and Ruminations: Selected Philosophical,
Historical, and Ideological Papers (2010).
John Grier Hibben was born in Peoria, Illinois, on April 19, 1861. He received his B.A. in 1882 from Princeton University,
where he was both president of his class and valedictorian. After attending Princeton Theological Seminary from 1883 to
1886, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1887. He received his A.M. in philosophy in 1885 and his Ph.D. in
philosophy in 1993, both from Princeton University. He joined the Princeton University faculty in 1891 as instructor in logic,
later taught psychology and Bible, became full professor of logic in 1897, and served as president of Princeton University
from 1912 to 1932. Among his books are Inductive Logic (1896), The Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to the
Study of Philosophy (1898), Hegel’s Logic: An Essay in Interpretation (1902), Logic, Deductive and Inductive (1905),
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1910), A Defence of Prejudice, and Other Essays (1911), The Higher
Patriotism (1915), and Self-Legislated Obligations (1927). He died in Woodbridge, New Jersey, on May 16, 1933.
Eric v.d. Luft earned his B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy and religion at Bowdoin College in 1974 and his Ph.D. in
philosophy at Bryn Mawr College in 1985. From 1987 to 2006 he was Curator of Historical Collections at SUNY Upstate
Medical University. He has taught at Villanova University, Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, and the College
of Saint Rose, and is listed in Who’s Who in America. Luft has written extensively in philosophy, religion, history, history of
medicine, and nineteenth-century studies. He is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of over 600 publications, including
Hegel, Hinrichs, and Schleiermacher on Feeling and Reason in Religion: The Texts of Their 1821-22 Debate (1987);
God, Evil, and Ethics: A Primer in the Philosophy of Religion (2004); A Socialist Manifesto (2007); Die at the Right
Time: A Subjective Cultural History of the American Sixties (2009); and Ruminations: Selected Philosophical,
Historical, and Ideological Papers (2010).
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