Keith Baker
J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus
History
Academic Appointments
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Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, History
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago (1974 - 1975)
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Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago (1975 - 1978)
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Associate Dean of the College, University of Chicago (1975 - 1978)
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Associate Dean, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago (1975 - 1978)
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Chair, Commission on Graduate Education, University of Chicago (1980 - 1982)
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Chair, Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Chicago (1983 - 1986)
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Director, John M. Olin Program in the History of Political Culture, University of Chicago (1987 - 1988)
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Chair, Department of History, Stanford University (1994 - 1995)
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Director, Stanford Humanities Center (1995 - 2000)
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Cognizant Dean for the Humanities, School of Humanities and Sciences (2000 - 2003)
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Director, Institute for French Interdisciplinary Studies (2000 - 2003)
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Jean-Paul Gimon Director, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. (2004 - 2012)
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French Revolution Bicentennial Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (1989 - 1989)
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Directeur d'etudes invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1982 - 1982)
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Directeur d'etudes invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1984 - 1984)
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Directeur d'etudes invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1986 - 1986)
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Directeur d'etudes invite, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1991 - 1991)
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Visiting Associate Professor of European History, Yale University (1974 - 1974)
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Professor in the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago (1977 - 1989)
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Professor in the Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago (1977 - 1989)
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Professor in the Department of History and the College, University of Chicago (1977 - 1989)
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Associate Professor, University of Chicago (1970 - 1976)
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Assistant Professor of European History, University of Chicago (1965 - 1970)
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Instructor in History and the Humanities, Reed College (1964 - 1965)
Honors & Awards
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Chevalier dans L'Ordre, Palmes Academiques (1988)
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Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University (1994)
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Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institut fUr Geschichte, Geschichte, (1994)
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Internal Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2005-2006)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Fellowship Selection Committees, Mellon Foundation, ACLS
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Member Editorial Board, French Revolution Research Collection
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Series Editor, Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution
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Ex officio member, Executive Committee, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2011)
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Member Board of Editors, History of European Ideas (2007 - 2012)
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President, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2007 - 2011)
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Co-President, Society for French Historical Studies (2004 - 2005)
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Elected Member, Executive Committee, International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2003 - 2007)
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President, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2000 - 2000)
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Vice-President, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1999 - 1999)
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Second Vice-President, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1998 - 1998)
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Member, American Philosophical Society (1997 - 1997)
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Co-Director, NEH Summer Institute (1995 - 1995)
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Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (1994 - 1994)
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Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference on The Terror in the French Revolution, Stanford University (1992 - 1992)
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Member, Committee on Committees, American Historical Association (1991 - 1994)
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Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991 - 1991)
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Historical Adviser, Bastille, William Benton Broadcast Project, University of Chicago (1988 - 1989)
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Chair, Scholars Committee, American Committee for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (1987 - 1989)
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Member, American Committee for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution (1987 - 1989)
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Member, Organizing Committee, Principal responsibility, Conference on the Political Culture of the Old Regime, Chicago. (1986 - 1986)
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Member, Conseil d'Administration, Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris (1984)
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Member, Organizing Committee, International Research Conference (1984 - 1988)
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Co-Editor, Journal of Modern History (1980 - 1989)
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Member, Steering Committee, University of Chicago (1980 - 1988)
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Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1979 - 1980)
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Member Board of Editors, Ethics (1979 - 1980)
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Member Board of Editors, French Historical Studies (1976 - 1979)
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Book Review Editor, Journal of Modern History (1971 - 1972)
Program Affiliations
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Philosophy and Literature
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Program in History & Philosophy of Science
Professional Education
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Ph.D, University College, Historical Research (1964)
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Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, History of political theory (1961)
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M.A., Cambridge University (1963)
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B.A., Cambridge University, Historical Tripos (1960)
2023-24 Courses
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Independent Studies (1)
- Curricular Practical Training
HISTORY 299F (Sum)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2021-22 Courses
- Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern
FRENCH 13, HISTORY 239C, HUMCORE 13, PHIL 13 (Spr) - The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics
HISTORY 237D, HISTORY 337D (Spr)
- Humanities Core: Great Books, Big Ideas -- Europe, Modern
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Jon Cooper -
Orals Evaluator
Jon Cooper, Greg Priest
All Publications
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Revolution 1.0
JOURNAL OF MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
2013; 11 (2): 187-219
View details for Web of Science ID 000319062600004
- Enlightenment Idioms, Old Regime Discourses, and Revolutionary Improvisation From Deluge to Deficit: The Origins ofthe French Revolution edited by Kley, D. V., Kaiser, T. Stanford University Press. 2011: 165–97
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A Genealogy of Dr Manette
Conference on Charles Dickens and the French Revolution - Crowds and Power
PALGRAVE. 2009: 64–74
View details for Web of Science ID 000284139900004
- Tocqueville's Blind Spot? Political Contestations under the Old Regime The Tocqueville Review 2006; 27: 257-52
- Venturi's Utopia and Reform in the Enlightenment Il repubblicanesimo moderno edited by Albertone, M. Naples, Bibliopolis. 2006: 19–43
- Condorcet sur la Justice, Liberte, Egalite, Fratemite Justice, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite: Sur quelques valeurs fondamentales de la democratie europeenne edited by Inkova, O. Geneva, Euryopa. 2006: 31–46
- Political Languages of the French Revolution The Cambridge History of Political Thought edited by Goldie, M., Wokler, R. Cambridge University Press. 2006: 626–59
- Apres la 'Culture politique'? De nouveaux courants dans l'approche linguistique XVIIIe siecle 2005: 234-254
- Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien (Review Essay) H-France Review 2005; X (20)
- Legendre vs. the Ministry of the Interior Journ@l electronique d'histoire des probabilites et de la statistique 2005; 1 (2)
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On Condorcet's "Sketch"
DAEDALUS
2004; 133 (3): 56-64
View details for Web of Science ID 000206058600007
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Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind: Tenth Epoch
DAEDALUS
2004; 133 (3): 65-82
View details for Web of Science ID 000206058600008
- The Gimon Collection: A Resource for Scholarship A Vast and Useful Art: The Gustave Gimon Collection on French Political Economy edited by Parrine, M. J. 2004: 19–23
- On Condorcet's 'Sketch Daedalus 2004; 113 (3): 56-64
- Le trasformazione del repubblicanesimo classico nella Francia del Settecento Liberta politica e virtu civile. Significati e percorsi del repubblicanesimo classico edited by Viroli, M. 2004: 149–175
- Condorcet Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment edited by Kors, A. C. Oxford University Press. 2002
- Revolution Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment edited by Kors, A. C. Oxford University Press. 2002
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Transformations of classical republicanism in eighteenth-century France
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
2001; 73 (1): 32-53
View details for Web of Science ID 000168006800002
- What's Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press. 2001
- Epistemologie et politique: Pourquoi 1' Encyclopedie est-elle un dictionnaire? L 'Encyclopedie. Du reseau au livre et du livre au reseau edited by Morrissey, R., Roger, P. 2001: 51–58
- Introduction Les Gazettes Europeennes et l'information politique de l'Ancien Regime edited by Retat, P. 1999
- American Historiography of the French Revolution Historical Writing in the United States edited by Molho, A., Wood, G. 1998
- Aufklarung und die Erfindung der Gesellschaft Nach der Aujklarung edited by Klein, W., Beyer, W. N. Akademie Verlag. 1995: 109–124
- L 'homme social L 'homme des lumieres: De Paris a Petersbourg edited by Roger, P. 1995: 133–152
- A Foucauldian Account of the French Revolution Foucault and the Writing of History Blackwell. 1994: 187–205
- The Idea of a Declaration of Rights The French Idea of Freedom: Origins of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen edited by Kley, D. V. Stanford University Press. 1994: 154–196
- Dialogue sur l'espace public Politix 1994: 5-22
- On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution Geschichte schreiben in der Postmoderne edited by Conrad, C., Kessel, M. Stuttgart, Reclam. 1994: 251–282
- Enlightenment and the Institution of Society: Notes for a Conceptual History Main Trends in Cultural History edited by Melching, W. B., Velema, W. E. 1994: 95–120
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A FOUCAULDIAN FRENCH-REVOLUTION
Conference on Foucault and the Writing of History Today
BLACKWELL PUBL. 1994: 187–205
View details for Web of Science ID A1994BB43P00011
- The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture. vol. 4 The Terror Oxford, Pergamon Press. 1994
- Au tribunal de l'opinion. Essais sur l'imaginaire politique au XVIIIe siecle Paris, Payot. 1993
- Public Opinions and Revolutionary Thoughts: Searching for Eighteenth-Century Culture The ARTFL Project Newsletter 1993; 8 (1): 2-3
- Condorcet ou la republique de la raison Le siecle de l'avenement republicain edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. 1993: 225–255
- Condorcet o la Repubblica della ragione L 'idea di Repubblica nell 'Europa moderna edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. 1993: 233–264
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THE MAUPEOU-REVOLUTION, THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH POLITICS AT THE END OF THE OLD-REGIME + AN INTRODUCTION
HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS-REFLEXIONS HISTORIQUES
1992; 18 (2): 1-16
View details for Web of Science ID A1992JT77200001
- Reason and Revolution: Political Consciousness and Ideological Invention at the End of the Old Regime In the Presence of the Past. Essays in Honor of Frank Manuel edited by Feingold, M., Bienvenu, R. 1991
- Defining the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France: Variations on a Theme by Habermas Habermas and the Public Sphere edited by Calhoun, C. M.I.T. Press. 1991: 181–211
- Inventing the French Revolution. Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press. 1990
- Souverainete nationale Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. 1989
- L'Unite de la pensee de Condorcet Condorcet: mathematicien, economiste, philosophe, homme politique edited by Crepel, P., Gilain, C. 1989: 515–24
- A World Transformed The Wilson Quarterly 1989; 13
- Sieyes and the Creation of French Revolutionary Discourse The Languages of Revolution edited by Mannucci, L. V. 1989
- Sieyes Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. 1989
- Editors' Introduction Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution edited by Baker, K. M., Kaplan, S. L. Duke University Press. 1989
- A Script for Modern Politics France Magazine 1989; 13
- Constitution Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. 1989
- Closing the French Revolution: Saint-Simon and Comte The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Pergamon Press. 1989: 323–39
- French Revolution and Intellectual History Intellectual History 1989: 75–93
- La bombe Sieyes Le Monde de la Revolution francaise 1989; 1
- Le moment Condorcet? Le Monde de la Revolution francaise 1989
- A Script for a French Revolution: The Political Consciousness of the abbe Mably The French Revolution and Intellectual History edited by Censer, J. R. Chicago. 1989: 75–93
- Condorcet Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. 1989
- Condorcet Dictionnaire critique de la Revolution francaise edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Paris, Flammarion. 1988
- Condorcet. Raison et politique Hermann. 1988
- Sieyes Dictionnaire critique de la Revolution francaise edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Paris, Flammarion. 1988
- Constitution Dictionnaire critique de la Revolution francaise edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Paris, Flammarion. 1988
- Souverainete nationale Dictionnaire critique de la Revolution francaise edited by Furet, F., Ozouf, M. Paris, Flammarion. 1988
- The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture vol.1 The Political Culture of the Old Regime Oxford, Pergamon Press. 1987
- Politique et opinion publique sous l'ancien regime Annales 1987
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1987; 7
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POLITICS AND PUBLIC-OPINION UNDER THE OLD REGIME
ANNALES-ECONOMIES SOCIETES CIVILISATIONS
1987; 42 (1): 41-71
View details for Web of Science ID A1987H104200003
- Politics and Public Opinion under the Old Regime Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France edited by Censer, J., Popkin, J. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1987: 205–246
- Science and Politics at the End of the Old Regime: Reflections on a Theme of Professor Charles Gillispie Minerva 1987; 25: 21-34
- Montesquieu A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 edited by Scott, S. F., Rothaus, B. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press. 1985
- Social Contract A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 edited by Scott, S. F., Rothaus, B. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press. 1985
- The Language of Liberty in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Early Writings of Guillaume-Joseph Saige L'Eta dei lumi. Studt storici sul settecento Europeo in onore di Franco Venturi Naples. 1985; 2 (1:331-370)
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MEMORY AND PRACTICE, POLITICS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PAST IN 18TH-CENTURY FRANCE
REPRESENTATIONS
1985: 134-164
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- Legendre A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 edited by Scott, S. F., Rothaus, B. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press. 1985
- Condorcet A Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 edited by Scott, S. F., Rothaus, B. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press. 1985
- On the Problem of the Randomness of Ends Condorcet Studies I edited by Rosenfield, L. C., Popkin, R. H. Atlantic Highlands, N.J., Humanities Press. 1984: 73–80
- On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution Modern European Intellectual History : Reappraisals and New Perspectives edited by LaCapra, D., Kaplan, S. L. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press. 1982: 197–219
- Report of the Commission on Graduate Education The University of Chicago Record 1982; 16 (2)
- Un copione per la Rivoluzione francese: la conscienza politica dell'abate Mably Rivista storica italiana 1981; 93: 315-345
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A SCRIPT FOR A FRENCH-REVOLUTION - THE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF MABLY
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
1981; 14 (3): 235-263
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ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE - OLD PROBLEMS, RENEWED APPROACHES
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
1981; 53 (2): 281-303
View details for Web of Science ID A1981MM05900006
- Memory, Judgment, Choice The University of Chicago Record 1978; 13
- French Political Thought at the Accession of Louis XVI Journal of Modern History 1978; 50
- State, Society and Subsistence in Eighteenth-Century France Journal of Modern History 1978; 50
- Condorcet's Notes for a Revised Edition of his Reception Speech to the Academie francaise Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 1977; 149
- Condorcet: Selected Writings Bobbs-Merrill. 1976
- Condorcet. From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics University of Chicago Press. 1975
- Politics and Social Science in Eighteenth-Century France: the Societe de 1789 French Government and Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Memory of Alfred Cobban edited by Bosher, J. F. London, Athlone Press. 1973: 203–230.
- Science and the Social Order in the Old Regime (Review Essay) Minerva 1972; 10: 502-508
- Un 'eloge' officieux de Condorcet: sa notice historique et critique sur Condillac Revue de synthese, 3e serie 1967; 47-48
- Les debuts de Condorcet au secretariat de l' Academie royale des sciences (1773-1776) Revue d'histoire des sciences 1967; 20
- Scientism, Elitism and Liberalism: The Case of Condorcet Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 1967; 55
- Condorcet Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Edwards, P. New York. 1967: 182–184
- The Early History of the Term 'Social Science' Annals of Science 1965; 20: 211-226
- The Origins and Authorship of the Educational Proposals ... Generally Ascribed to Lavoisier Annals of Science 1965; 21