The Sociology of Philosophies

Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Fourth printing, 2002

First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Collins, Randall, 1941–

The sociology of philosophies : a global theory of intellectual

change / Randall Collins.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-674-81647-1 (cloth)

ISBN 0-674-00187-7 (pbk.)

1. Knowledge, Sociology of. 2. Philosophy—History.


2. Comparative civilization. 4. Philosophers—Social networks.
   I. Title.
   BD175.C565 1998
   306.4′ 2 ′09—dc21 97-