Word: publius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the 77 Federalist Papers that appeared in New York newspapers in 1787-88 under the byline "Publius" (the authorship of the others is known). They got funds from the Ford, Rockefeller and National Science foundations, the Office of Naval Research and Harvard's Laboratory of Social Relations, and went to work...