Michel Bourdeau (Editor) Michel Bourdeau is Emeritus Senior Researcher at the Institut d”histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques in Paris. He is the secretary of the Association internationale La Maison d”Auguste Comte and the author or coeditor of several books and numerous articles on Auguste Comte.Mary Pickering (Editor) Mary Pickering is professor of history at San Jose State University. She is the author of the three-volume Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography.Warren Schmaus (Editor) Warren Schmaus is professor of philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition and Durkheim”s Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge: Creating an Intellectual Niche, and is coeditor of Love, Order, & Progress: The Science, Philosophy, & Politics of Auguste Comte.