The Book Prize Index

The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930

Bruce Kuklick

Concentrating on the era when American academic philosophy was nearly equated with Harvard, the ideas, lives, and social milieu of Pierce, James, Royce, Whitehead, and others are critically analyzed

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryTopic Classifier: Intellectual History & Ideas -> HistoryIntellectual History & IdeasRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards: Ralph Waldo Emerson Award1978WinnerOfficial source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • James40%
    • Royce40%
    • Whitehead40%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Cambridge, Massachusetts90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 55%.