James Medbury MacKaye

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James Medbury MacKaye (born April 8, 1872 in New York City , † January 22, 1935 in Boston ) was an American engineer and philosopher .

MacKaye was born in New York City to actors Steele MacKaye and Mary (Medbery) MacKaye. His brothers were the playwright and poet Percy MacKaye and the environmentalist Benton MacKaye . He went to the Lawrence Academy in Groton , Massachusetts . After Packards Business College in New York, he completed his studies in 1895 with a Bachelor of Science from Harvard University . MacKaye then worked as a patent attorney at the Census Bureau in Washington and in 1891 became Secretary to Nathaniel Southgate Shaler at the Harvard Department of Geology. In 1899 he moved to the research department of Stone & Webster in Boston. In his almost thirty years of professional life there, he published various philosophical books.

In addition to an economy of happiness , he tried an alternative to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity . Both works are largely forgotten, but met with great interest during MacKaye's lifetime.

In 1931 he was appointed to a late teaching position at Rollins College and in 1932 as a professor at Dartmouth College . In 1935 MacKaye died in Boston after a brief serious illness .

bibliography

  • The Economy of Happiness . Little, Brown, and Co., Boston 1906.
  • The Happiness of Nations: A Beginning in Political Engineering. BW Huebsch, New York 1915.
  • The Mechanics of Socialism. Fabian Club, Boston 1915.
  • Americanized Socialism; A Yankee View of Capitalism. Boni and Liveright, New York 1918.
  • The Science of Usefulness. Boni and Liveright, New York 1920.
  • The logic of conduct. Boni and Liveright, New York 1924.
  • Thoreau: Philosopher of Freedom. Vanguard Press, New York 1930
  • The Dynamic Universe. C. Scribner's Sons, New York 1931
  • The Logic of Language. Dartmouth College Publications, Hanover, NH 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Larry Anderson: Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2002, p. 16.
  2. ↑ The Papers of The Mackaye Family in the Dartmouth College Library .
  3. ↑ Prof. JM M'Kaye Scientist, Dies, 62. The New York Times. January 23, 1935, p. 17.
  4. ^ WK Wright, Memorial Notice: The Philosophical Review. Volume 45, No. 2 (March 1936), p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME MacKaye, James Medbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacKaye, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1935
Place of death Boston