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George Holmes Howison

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George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) was an American philosopher who established the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and held the position there of Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity. [1]

38 relations: American philosophy, Amos Bronson Alcott, Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California, Borden Parker Bowne, Brown University, Concord School of Philosophy, Europe, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Harvard Divinity School, Howison Lectures in Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin, Immanuel Kant, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Jules Michelet, Lane Theological Seminary, List of American philosophers, Marietta College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michael Polanyi, Michel Foucault, Montgomery County, Maryland, Noam Chomsky, Personalism, Pluralism (philosophy), Ralph Waldo Emerson, St. Louis Hegelians, The English High School, The Phenomenology of Spirit, Thomas Davidson (philosopher), University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, William James, William Torrey Harris, Yale University.

American philosophy

American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Borden Parker Bowne

Borden Parker Bowne (January 14, 1847April 1, 1910) was an American Christian philosopher, preacher, and theologian in the Methodist tradition.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Concord School of Philosophy

The Concord School of Philosophy was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1888.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and the most important figure of German idealism.

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Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Howison Lectures in Philosophy

The Howison Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series established in 1919 by friends and former students of George Howison, who served as the Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin), is a university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.

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John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, Georgist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

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Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher.

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Journal of Speculative Philosophy

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination is an academic journal that publishes systematic and interpretive essays about basic philosophical questions.

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Jules Michelet

Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian.

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Lane Theological Seminary

Lane Theological Seminary was a Presbyterian theological college that operated from 1829 to 1932 in the Walnut Hills area of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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List of American philosophers

This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.

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Marietta College

Marietta College (Latin: Collegium Mariettensis) is a co-educational liberal arts private college in Marietta, Ohio, USA, (population 14,000+) which was the first permanent settlement of the Northwest Territory.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi, (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 9.0% to an estimated 1,058,810 in 2017.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist.

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Personalism

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought searching to describe the uniqueness of 1) God as Supreme Person or 2) a human person in the world of nature, specifically in relation to animals. One of the main points of interest of personalism is human subjectivity or self-consciousness, experienced in a person's own acts and inner happenings—in "everything in the human being that is internal, whereby each human being is an eyewitness of its own self". Other principles.

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Pluralism (philosophy)

Pluralism is a term used in philosophy, meaning "doctrine of multiplicity", often used in opposition to monism ("doctrine of unity") and dualism ("doctrine of duality").

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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St. Louis Hegelians

The St.

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The English High School

The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821.

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The Phenomenology of Spirit

The Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most widely discussed philosophical work.

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Thomas Davidson (philosopher)

Thomas Davidson (25 October 1840, Old Deer – 14 September 1900, Montreal) was a Scottish-American philosopher and lecturer.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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William Torrey Harris

William Torrey Harris (September 10, 1835 – November 5, 1909) was an American educator, philosopher, and lexicographer.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Holmes_Howison

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