Wilmon Henry Sheldon
Wilmon Henry Sheldon (1875–1981) was a twentieth-century American philosopher.
Wilmon Henry Sheldon | |
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| Born | 1875 |
| Died | 1981 |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| School | Process philosophy |
Life and career
Sheldon was educated at Harvard University and taught at Yale.[1]
Major works
- Strife of Systems and Productive Duality: An Essay in Philosophy. Harvard University Press. 1918.
- America’s Progressive Philosophy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1942.
- Process and Polarity (Woodbridge Lectures, Columbia University). 1944.
- God and Polarity: A Synthesis of Philosophies. 1954.
gollark: Which is not an issue in modern societies, so the tradition is somewhat silly.
gollark: It's a thing. ish.
gollark: I mean, one of the "wisdom of the ages"es of Western societies is to question past traditions and old ideas.
gollark: People complaining about it doesn't mean it's true either, I doubt they actually *measured* it.
gollark: They may also not have been very good ideas in the time when they "evolved", and just stuck around through luck or being tied to better ones.
References
- Nicholas Rescher, Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy, SUNY Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-7914-2817-7, pp. 23-24.
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