Thomas Edmund Jessop

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Thomas Edmund Jessop , Order of the British Empire (born September 10, 1896 in Huddersfield , † September 10, 1980 in Kingston upon Hull ) was a British professor of philosophy, best known for his work on George Berkeley .

Life and origin

Jessop was the son of Newton and Georgiana Jessop, born Swift, who had been married since 1885. He studied at the University of Leeds , where he received his BA in 1921 and his MA in 1922 . He received his Bachelor of Letters from Oriel College , Oxford . From 1925 to 1928 he was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow .

Jessop was one of the earliest members of the philosophy department at the University of Hull and the first to hold the Ferens Chair in Philosophy for Philosophy from 1928 to 1960. From 1946 he worked in the department of philosophy of the normal language of Alan Richard White .

In his work The Treaty of Versailles: Was It Just? he came to the conclusion that the Treaty of Versailles (1919) was fair overall.

Publications (selection)

  • A Bibliography of George Berkeley (1934; 2nd ed. 1968)
  • A Bibliography of David Hume and of Scottish Philosophy from Francis Hutcheson to Lord Balfour (1938; 2nd edition 1983)
  • Law and Love: A Study of the Christian Ethics (1940).
  • The Treaty of Versailles: What It Just? T. Nelson and Sons, London 1942
  • The Christian Morality (1960)
  • Thomas Hobbes (1960)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oxford Reference. Unfortunately with incorrectly spelled place of birth [1]
  2. ↑ Lecture Note Book of Professor TE Jessop [2]
  3. ^ Hull History Center: Lecture Note Book of Professor TE Jessop. U DP218 Lecture Note Book of Professor TE Jessop c. 1940s, Accession number: 2015/31 [3]
personal data
SURNAME Jessop, Thomas Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British university professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1980
Place of death Kingston upon Hull