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- ↑ Chapman, J. H. & Frankenberry, N. (eds). (1999). Interpreting Neville: Albany: State University of New York Press. vii
- ↑ Publisher's blurb on the dust jacket of Neville's Reconstruction of Thinking
- ↑ Publisher's blurb on back cover of Neville's Recovery of the Measure
- ↑ Peirce, Charles S. 1905. “Issues of Pragmaticism” in The Peirce Edition Project (ed.), The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Volume 2, 1893–1913.
- ↑ Ford, Lewis S. 1999. Creation and Concresence in J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry (eds.) Interpreting Neville, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
- ↑ Yong, Amos; Heltzela, Peter G. (2004). Theology in Global Context: Essays in Honor of Robert Cummings Neville. New York, NY: T & T Clark. ISBN 9780567026903.
- ↑ Neville, Robert. “Chinese Philosophy in Britain and America,” in Chinese, published under my Chinese name, NAN Lo Shan, in The Map of Contemporary British and American Philosophy, edited by KANG Ouyang, pp. 83–126. Beijing: Dangdai Yingmei Zhexue Ditu, 2005 (appearing in 2007).
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