Philosophy photographs.

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Philosophy photographs.

This collection consists of photographs removed from assorted manuscript collections relating to philosophy, including Edward Scribner Ames, John Dewey, James K. Feibleman, Stephen C. Pepper, Joseph Ratner, and Henry N. Wieman.

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Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Feibleman, James Kern, 1904-

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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1904, James Feibleman was a prolific author who has published nearly 50 books of poetry, novels, autobiography, but moslty serious philosophy. During World War II, Feibleman was a professor of English at Tulane University, later becoming chair of the department of philosophy from 1952 to 1969. His major endeavor was formulating a system of philosophy that rested on the ontological foundations of realism harking back to Plato with the idea that there is a prior ...

Pepper, Stephen C. (Stephen Coburn), 1891-1972

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Stephen Coburn Pepper was born in 1891, the son of well-known portrait painter Charles Hovey Pepper, and the grandson of a distinguished President of Colby College. Pepper majored in Philosophy and received both an A.B. and a Ph. D. from Harvard University. After teaching for a year at Wellesley College, Pepper was called to military service during World War I. In 1919, Pepper joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Pepper was elected chairman of the Art De...

Ames, Edward Scribner, 1870-1958

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Edward Scribner Ames was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on April 21, 1890. He was the son of a Disciples of Christ Minister, and became a minister himself after his graduation from Drake College (A.G., 1889, A.M., 1891). Ames received his B.D. from Yale in 1892, and accepted a doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago in 1894. Ames studied under James Hayden Tufts, and in 1895 he became the first person to receive a Ph. D. from the University's newly formed philosophy departm...

Ratner, Joseph, 1901-

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Joseph Ratner was born in London in 1901. His family left England in 1904 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at City College of New York in 1922 and his M.A. at Columbia University in 1923, he was granted a Moral Science Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge University (1924-1925). In 1926, he returned to the United States and served as a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. In 1930, he received his Ph. D. from Columbia; at...

Wieman, Henry Nelson, 1884-1975

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Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975), one of America's leading theologians, was born on August 19, 1884 in Richhill, Missouri. He received an A.B. in 1907 from Park College in Parkville, Missouri and studied at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He was awarded a fellowship to continue his research in Jena and Heidelberg, Germany under Nobel Prize winning religious philosopher Rudolf Euken. In 1912, he returned to the U.S. and served as minister for two years in St. Joseph, Missouri and Davis, Califo...