Field-Of-Study: Philosophy

David Shepherd Nivison

David Shepherd Nivison (b. 1923, Maine; at Stanford University beginning 1948; retired 1988 as Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions and Ethics) I received a Guggenheim fellowship for the academic year 1973-74, for study of the problem of weakness of will in philosophy, Western and Chinese. I spent the autumn term in Oxford

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Marjorie Hope Nicolson

As published in the Foundation’s Annual Report for 1926–27: Nicolson, Marjorie Hope: Appointed for research, in certain European libraries, in to the history of ideas with special reference to the seventeenth century as the determining point of modern thought, and for the completion of a book on the Life and Works of Henry More; tenure,

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