John Wisdom
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Wisdom was a British analytic philosopher associated with Ludwig Wittgenstein. His writings, in vivid conversational style, deal especially with the nature of philosophy and with the philosophy of mind.
Early Life
Arthur John Terence Dibben Wisdom attended private schools in England and then entered Cambridge University, where he studied moral science, as philosophy was called there. G. E. Moore and Charlie Dunbar Broad were the two professors of philosophy at Cambridge then; Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, though no longer...
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