Addison Webster Moore (30 July 1866 – 25 August 1930) was a

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pragmatist

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. He was president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1911 and president of the

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in 1917. He was born in

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, United States. He studied at

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, earning an

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in 1890 and an A.M. in 1893. He then studied at

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(1893–94) and took his

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in 1898 at the

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, attracted by

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's arrival there. When Dewey went to

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in 1904, Moore took over the

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and

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courses at Chicago, and became

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of philosophy in 1909. Moore was a supporter of Dewey's

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version of pragmatism. In 1910, he published ''Pragmatism and Its Critics'', consisting of one chapter explaining pragmatism and four chapters addressing criticisms directed towards this doctrine.

Bibliography

* ''The functional versus the representational theories of knowledge in Locke's Essay'', Chicago, The University of Chicago press, 1902. * ''Existence, Meaning, and Reality in Locke's Essay and in Present Epistemology'', Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1903. * ''Pragmatism and its critics'', Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press, 1910. * with John Dewey (and al.), Creative intelligence : essays in the pragmatic attitude, New York : H. Holt and Company, 1917. * ''The Collected Writings of Addison W. Moore'', 3 vol., John R. Shook (ed.), Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2003.

External links

Moore at the Pragmatist Cybrary
Includes a short biography and a list of Moore's writings. * * * 1866 births 1930 deaths American non-fiction writers 20th-century American philosophers Pragmatists DePauw University alumni Cornell University alumni University of Chicago alumni University of Chicago faculty People from Plainfield, Indiana {{US-philosopher-stub

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