Ralph Barton Perry

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Ralph Barton Perry (born July 3, 1876 in Poultney , Vermont , † January 22, 1957 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American philosopher .

Life

Ralph Barton Perry studied at Princeton University , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1896 . He then made his Masters in 1897 and his doctorate in 1899 at Harvard University . After teaching for three years at Williams and Smith College , he returned to Harvard in 1902, where he was appointed professor in 1913 and Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy from 1930 until his retirement in 1946 . From 1920 to 1921 he was President of the East Coast Division of the American Philosophical Association . He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1928, to the American Philosophical Society in 1939, and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1942 .

Perry was a representative of neo-realism and a student of the psychologist and philosopher William James . About this he published his biography The Thought and Character of William James in 1935 , for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography a year later .

plant

  • The Approach to Philosophy (1905)
  • The Moral Economy (1909)
  • Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism, together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James (1912)
  • The Free Man and the Soldier (1916)
  • The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War (1918)
  • Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James (1920)
  • The Plattsburg movement: A Chapter of America's Participation in the World War (1921)
  • A Modernist View of National Ideals (1926)
  • General Theory of Value (1926)
  • Philosophy of the Recent Past: An Outline of European and American Philosophy Since 1860 (1926)
  • The Hope for Immortality (1935)
  • The Thought and Character of William James (1935)
  • Shall not perish from the earth (1940)
    • Shall not pass away from this world , Nuremberg 1949
  • Plea for an Age Movement (1942)
  • Puritanism and Democracy (1944)
    • American Ideals: Puritanism and Democracy , Danubia Verlag, Vienna 1948,
  • One world in the making (1945)
    • How will the world be , Leibniz Verlag, Munich 1948
  • Characteristically American: Five Lectures Delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, November-December 1948 (1949)
  • Realms of Value (1954)
  • The Humanity of Man (1956)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Ralph B. Perry. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Members: Ralph Barton Perry. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Perry, Ralph Barton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Poultney , Vermont, United States
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1957
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts, United States