Paul Weiss (philosopher)

Life

White was the son of the Hungarian- Jewish immigrant Samuel Weiss and those coming from Germany Emma, née Rothschild. His father worked as a plumber and his mother as a maid. The family lived in a heavily Jewish embossed area on the Lower East Side. After the Public School Weiss attended the Graduate School of Management, where he learned shorthand and typewriting. He then held various jobs before 1924 at the College of the City of New York enrolled. Here he was made famous by Morris Raphael Cohen with the philosophy of pragmatism. In this time he met Victoria Brodkin, whom he married in 1928 and with whom he had two children, Judith (1935 ) and Jonathan ( 1939). His wife died in 1953.

After graduating from college in 1927 with "cum laude " Weiss went to Harvard, where he among other things, in Étienne Gilson, William Ernest Hocking, CI Lewis and Ralph Barton Perry studied. Under Alfred North Whitehead, he obtained his PhD in 1929. As an employee of Charles Hartshorne White has worked in the following years to the preparation and publication of the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, who appeared in six volumes between 1931 and 1936.

Weiss himself after a year teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe, 1931, Bryn Mawr College, where he taught philosophy for 15 years. In 1946 he accepted the offer to act at Yale University in the department of fire Blanshard. After the first temporary site was converted into a permanent position he remained until retirement age at Yale, most recently as Sterling Professor of Philosophy. At Yale, Weiss founded the journal The Review of Metaphysics in 1947 and the Metaphysical Society of America in 1950. During this time, White oversaw a number of dissertations, including by Richard Rorty (1956). 1966/67, Paul Weiss was President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophers Association. His Presidential Address was titled: " Separate and Equal, but Integrated".

After its adoption in Yale Weiss was offered by Fordham University a chair. This was withdrawn after a short period for reasons of age, after which White complained in 1971 at the age of 69 years because of age discrimination. However, he lost out in the public much-publicized process. Instead, Weiss Heffer Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC As there is no longer the annually renewable contract was extended because Weiss had reached the age of 90 years now, this was again threatened with court action. Then his work was extended for two more years, before he finally retired. Until shortly before his death, White was working on other publications.

Teaching

White is considered one arrested in the tradition philosopher who rejected the modern forms of analytic philosophy. His focus was on questions of metaphysics and cosmology. To this end, his work " Being and Other Realities " (1995) is often called. Although a student of Whitehead, he represented a clear defense of the metaphysics of substance. For Weiss exists between the natural objects of our knowledge about these and our reference (reference) to this dialectical relationship. This is because the nature of our cognitive abilities do not allow any direct description of the goods. Rather, it must be taken into consideration as they appear in the human experience. Science, art and philosophy also do not have the task of designing new world pictures for white. They should rather keep as far as possible to the daily experience and make corrections only there, where the recognition of contradictions between the ideas of the everyday world and the research results of the sciences leads.

For white being constituted a multiplicity of individuals whose cohesion is ensured by four universal structure levels (domains). These four spheres are those of the person, the human world of nature and the cosmos. Elsewhere Weiss describes the four ways of being as actuality, ideality, existence and God. White designed so that a similar ontological hierarchical structure such as Nicolai Hartmann. Further, some highly regarded contributors was white to the philosophy of sport, art, religion, the logic and political philosophy.

Writings

  • Reality, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1938
  • Modes of Being, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1958
  • Our Public Life, Bloomington, Indiana University Press 1959
  • Nine Basic Arts, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1961
  • The World of Art, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1961
  • History: Written and Lived, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1962
  • The God We Seek, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1964
  • The Making of Men, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1967
  • Right & Wrong: A Philosophical Dialogue between Father and Son, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1967
  • Beyond All Appearances, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1974
  • Philosophy in Process, Vol 1-11, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1966-1989
  • Being and Other Realities, Open Court, Chicago 1995
  • Emphatics, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville 2000
  • Surrogates, Indiana University Press, Bloomington (IN ) 2002 ( posthumously )
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