Tantalizer 115: Whimsical chairs

From New Scientist #664, 4th September 1969 [link] Pallas University has no less than five chairs in philosophy. They are held by Professors Aristotle, Bacon, Carneades, Descartes and Erasmus and are chairs of logic, metaphysics, noumenology, ontology and political theory. Each professor professes a different one of those subjects. The chairs are allocated on the [ ]