Morton White
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Morton White (1917 -) is an American philosopher and historian of ideas. He is both a central figure in the philosophical movement of Holistic Pragmatism and a noted historian of American philosophical thought. He was a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard during the 1950s and '60s and, since 1970, has been at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, where he is currently professor emeritus. Born in the Lower East Side of New York City, White attended City College of New York as an undergraduate before doing his postgraduate studies at Columbia University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1942 and was influenced by John Dewey. During his time at Harvard, White was a colleague of Willard Van Orman Quine. While the philosophical views of the two are closely related, particularly in their rejection of a sharp distinction between a priori and empirical statements, White rejects Quine's view that "Philosophy of science is philosophy enough". Using the framework of Holistic Pragmatism, White argues that philosophical inquiry can just as well be applied to cultural institutions beyond science, such as law and art.
Morton White: Selected Bibliography
- The Origin of Dewey's Instrumentalism (Columbia University Press, 1943)
- Social Thought in America: the revolt against formalism (Viking, 1948)
- (Ed.) The Age of Analysis: twentieth century philosophers (Houghton Mifflin, 1955)
- Toward Reunion in Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1956)
- (Morton and Lucia White) The Intellectual versus the City : from Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright (Harvard, 1962)
- (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Morton White, Eds.) Paths of American Thought (Houghton Mifflin, 1963)
- The Foundations of Historical Knowledge (Harper & Row, 1965)
- Science and Sentiment in America (Oxford University Press, 1972)
- The Philosophy of the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1978)
- What Is and What Ought to be Done : an essay on ethics and epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1981)
- (Morton and Lucia White) Journeys to the Japanese, 1952-1979 (British Columbia University Press, 1986)
- Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 1987)
- The Question of Free Will : a holistic view (Princeton University Press, 1993)
- A Philosopher's Story (Penn State University Press, 1999) (Autobiography)
- A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism (Princeton University Press, 2002)
- From a Philosophical Point of View: Selected Studies (Princeton University Press, 2004)
External links
Book Websites
- [From a Philosophical Point of View]
- [A Philosophy of Culture]
- [A Philosopher's Story]
- [The Question of Free Will]
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