Wilmon Henry Sheldon

Wilmon Henry Sheldon ( also Wilmon H. Sheldon, born April 4, 1875 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † February 26, 1980 in Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont) was an American philosopher.

Life

Family and Education

A native of the city, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts City Newton Wilmon Henry Sheldon, son of Henry Newton Sheldon and his Wife Clara Phelps Morse Sheldon, turned after attending the public schools, the study of philosophy with William James, Josiah Royce and George Santayana at Harvard University to, there he acquired in 1895 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the following year that of a Master of Arts, in 1899 he obtained his PhD Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D. ).

The staunch supporters of the Democrats Wilmon Henry Sheldon married on 12 June 1903 from the Richmond, Indiana native Elizabeth Franc Dunham. Sheldon, who resided many years in Hanover, New Hampshire, died in late February 1980 at the ripe old age of 104 years. His final resting place he found on the Central Burying Ground in Hamden, Connecticut.

Professional career

Following his graduation Wilmon Henry Sheldon took a job as an assistant in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in 1901, he transferred to the function of a Lecturer in Philosophy at Columbia University in New York City. In 1905, he twisted to Princeton, New Jersey, where he was appointed at the local university for Preceptor at the Department of Philosophy. In 1909, Sheldon was appointed professor at Dartmouth College, where he was entrusted with the position of a Professor of Philosophy. In 1920 he was engaged in the same function at Yale University, where he held also in 1923 to 1926, the direction of the Department of Philosophy held in 1936 he was appointed Professor Sheldon Clark, 1943, his formal retirement. Then in 1940 began with a Fellowship of Silliman College Excellent his scientific work until after his 90th year continues.

Inspired by the metaphysics, in his scientific work in particular with the process philosophy and the development of philosophy concerning with Wilmon Henry Sheldon, held a membership in the American Philosophical Association, where he worked in 1921 to 1922 as President of the Eastern Division.

Publications (selection )

  • The identity of the theoretical and practical attitudes, Thesis ( Ph. D. ) - Harvard University, 1899
  • Strife of systems and productive duality; an essay in philosophy, Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], Cambridge, 1918
  • America's progressive philosophy, in: Powell lectures on philosophy at Indiana University, Yale University Press, New Haven, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1942
  • Process and polarity, in: Woodbridge lectures, no 1, Columbia University Press, New York, 1944
  • Professor Maritain on philosophical co -operation, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., 1945
  • God and polarity: a synthesis of philosophies, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1954
  • Rational religion: the philosophy of Christian love, Philosophical Library, New York, 1962
  • Agapology; the rational love- philosophy guide of life, Christopher Pub. House, Boston, 1965
  • Woman's mission to humanity, Christopher Pub. House, Boston, 1968
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