Herbert Wildon Carr (16 January 1857 – 8 July 1931) was a

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philosopher, Professor of Philosophy,

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from 1918 until 1925 and Visiting Professor at the

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from 1925 until his death. He was a student at King's College London where he was awarded the Jelf Medal.

Works

* ''Henri Bergson: the philosophy of change'', London: Jack, 1911 * ''The Problem of Truth,'' New York: Dodge, 1913 * ''The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce'', London: Macmillan, 1917 * ''The General Principle of Relativity in Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect,'' London: Macmillan, 1922 * ''L'Énergie spirituelle'', Translated by H. Wildon Carr as ''Mind-Energy: Lectures and Essays,'' London: Macmillan, 1920 * ''A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity,'' London: Macmillan, 1922 * ''Scientific Approach to Philosophy: Selected Essays and Reviews,'' London: Macmillan, 1924 * ''Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics: A Metaphysical Meditation,'' New York: Macmillan, 1927 * ''The Unique Status of Man,'' in, American Journal of Sociology, 1928 * ''The Freewill Problem,'' London: Benn Ltd., 1928 * ''Leibniz,'' Boston: Little Brown, 1929

References

* http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v128/n3220/abs/128098b0.html * ‘CARR, Herbert Wildon’
Who Was Who
A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 15 Feb 2012 * Pierfrancesco Basile, "Herbert Wildon Carr" in Michel Weber, ed.,
Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought
Volume II'' (2008) pages 383-4 * "Carr, Herbert Wildon" in Brown, ed., ''Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers'' * Richard T. Hull, ''Presidential Addresses of The American Philosophical Association'', 1921-1930, pages 439-440

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* * * 1857 births 1931 deaths Alumni of King's College London Associates of King's College Academics of King's College London Fellows of King's College London 20th-century British philosophers Presidents of the Aristotelian Society University of Southern California faculty {{UK-philosopher-stub