Ralph Barton Perry

Ralph Barton Perry ( born July 3, 1876 in Poultney, Vermont, † January 22, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher.

Life

Ralph Barton Perry studied at Princeton University, where he graduated in 1896 with a bachelor made ​​. Then he made in 1897 his master and his PhD in 1899 at Harvard University. After he taught for three years at Williams and Smith College, in 1902 he returned back to Harvard, where he was appointed professor in 1913 and from 1930 until his retirement in 1946 Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy. From 1920 to 1921 he was president of the East Coast division of the American Philosophical Association.

Perry was a representative of neorealism and students of the psychologist and philosopher William James. About this he published his biography in 1935 The Thought and Character of William James, for which he was a year later won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography.

Work

• The Approach to Philosophy (1905 )
• The Moral Economy (1909 )
• Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism, Pragmatism, and Realism, together with a Synopsis of the Philosophy of William James (1912 )
• The Free Man and the Soldier ( 1916)
• The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War ( 1918)
• Annotated Bibliography of the Writings of William James (1920 )
• The Plattsburg movement: A Chapter of America's Participation in the World War ( 1921)
• A Modernist View of National Ideals (1926 )
• General Theory of Value (1926 )
• Philosophy of the Recent Past: An Outline of European and American Philosophy Since 1860 (1926)
• The Hope for Immortality (1935 )
• The Thought and Character of William James (1935 )
• Shall not perish from the earth (1940 ) If you do not pass away from this world, Nuremberg 1949

• American Ideals: Puritanism and Democracy, Danubia Verlag, Wien 1948

• What will the world, Leibniz Verlag, Munich 1948