John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence

After September 2021: Lukas M. Verburgt is currently Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and guest researcher at Leiden University, Institute of Philosophy. He is the author of John Venn: A Life in Logic (forthcoming at The University of Chicago Press) and (co-)editor of several collections, including A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 (forthcoming at Springer). His main field of expertise is the history of science and philosophy in modern Europe, with a focus on Victorian Britain. Verburgt has held visiting research positions at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

• Introduction.- Abbreviations.- Part I Unpublished Writings.- Note to the Reader.- Annals – Autobiographical Sketch.- Science and Common Thought.- Part II Selected Correspondence.- Note to the Reader.- List of Letters.- I. Student: 1853–1857.- II. Curate: 1858–1862.- III. Moral Scientist: 1862–1899.- IV. Looking Back: 1900–1923.- Biographical List of Names.- Acknowledgments and Permissions.- Bibliography.

“The book is certainly an important and valuable contribution to the history of logic.” (Roman Murawski, Mathematical Reviews, July, 2023)