Paul Weiss

"Paul Weiss was born in Manhattan on May 19, 1901, to working-class Jewish parents. He graduated from City College with a degree in philosophy and then studied with noted philosopher Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1929. He lectured for a year at Harvard and Radcliffe and then taught at Bryn Mawr before coming to Yale.

"At Yale, he was known as an animated ,and passionate teacher who was a mentor to many students of philosophy, as well as to such noted alumni as writer William F. Buckley and entertainer Dick Cavett. Professor Weiss was the subject of documentary films and was interviewed by popular television hosts, including Jack Paar."

Source : http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n1/story18.html

Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce / edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1931-1958. 8 v. : ill., port. ; 24 cm. Includes indexes. Contents v. 1-2 Principles of philosophy and Elements of logic -- v. 3-4 Exact logic (published papers) and the simplest mathematics -- v. 5-6 Pragmatism and pragmaticism and Scientific metaphysics -- v.7-8 Science and philosophy and Reviews, correspondence, and bibliography.

Caveat Emptor

What hand one "Burks, Arthur W. (Arthur Walter), 1915- " (given by LAPL) had in all this is at present unclear to me. (WPT, Sept 07).