Paul Weiss Collections

About Weiss

Paul Weiss was born on May 19, 1901, in Manhattan. He graduated from City College with a degree in philosophy and then went on to study with Whitehead at Harvard, where he received his doctorate in 1929. He lectured for a year at Harvard and Radcliffe and then taught philosophy at Bryn Mawr. Among Dr. Weiss's major accomplishments were co-editing the collected papers of the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce in six volumes. The major summation of his early work was his book "Modes of Being" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1958). In 1947, he founded the Metaphysical Society of America and its academic journal, Review of Metaphysics. He served as the journal's editor until 1964.

Recently, the University Library, in cooperation with the Institute, acquired the library and late papers of Paul Weiss , one of the original Harvard editors of Peirce's writings and a great American philosopher in his own right.

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