Abstract

Dr Rouner has produced a highly readable and, if one may judge by those whom he had check his facts, W E Hocking and his son Richard Hocking, also a very reliable book. The book is a largely reworked Columbia University doctoral dissertation, originally done under the direction of W Pauck, J H Randall, claimed by the author to be ‘the foremost English-speaking historian of modern Western philosophy’, and M S Bates.