Edward Pols

Edward Pols (1919–2005) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America.[1]

Edward Pols
Born1919
Died2005
EducationHarvard University (PhD)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolProcess philosophy
ThesisThe idea of freedom in the metaphysics of Whitehead (1949)

He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical Realism (1992).

Works
  • Acts of our being a reflection on agency and responsibility
  • Meditation on a prisoner: towards understanding action and mind
  • Mind regained
  • Radical realism: direct knowing in science and philosophy
  • The recognition of reason
  • Whitehead's metaphysics: a critical examination of Process and Reality
gollark: I like summer holidays! Some of my best nonsense work has been done during them!
gollark: You can train specialists, through *optional* things you *opt into*, or just by hiring them.
gollark: Well, yes, it would work for those things for some people, but forcing everyone to do it has downsides, so I'm against it.
gollark: And not just vast quantities of undertrained infantry?
gollark: Don't modern militaries mostly require specialists *anyway*?

References
  1. Held, Barbara S. (2005). "In Memoriam: Edward Pols (1919-2005)". The Review of Metaphysics. 59 (2): 493–495. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20130649.
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