John Mueller Anderson (July 29, 1914 – December 3, 1999) was an American philosopher. He was known for his expertise on

post-Kantian philosophy German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s, and was closely linked both with Romanticism and the revolutionary ...

, philosophy of art and

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. Anderson was

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Professor of Philosophy at the

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Early life and education

Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts (1935) and a Master of Arts (1936) from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and a Doctor of Philosophy (1939) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Books

* ''Discourse on thinking'' * ''Natural deduction :the logical basis of axiom systems'' * ''The individual and the new world'' * ''The realm of art'' * ''The Truth of Freedom: An Essay on Mankind'' * ''Industrial management''

References

1999 deaths 1914 births 20th-century American philosophers Phenomenologists Continental philosophers Philosophy academics Heidegger scholars Pennsylvania State University faculty University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Philosophers of art American logicians {{US-philosopher-stub