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Edward John Hamilton was born on November 21, 1834, in Belfast, Ireland, the eldest son of Anna (Patterson) and the Reverend William Hamilton. His father was head-master of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution until 1843, when he was sent as a clergyman of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland first to Picton, Ontario, and four years later to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Edward began to be interested in philosophy early in life and under the guidance of his father devoted much time to the study of Thomas Reid and other Scotch thinkers. After several years of preparatory school, he entered Hanover College in Indiana, where in 1853 he obtained the A. B. and later the A. M. degree. After graduation he attended the Princeton Theological Seminary for a year, then the Union Theological Seminary and the New Albany (Indiana) Theological Seminary. Returning to the Princeton Theological Seminary, he remained from 1856 to 1858. During these years he studied the philosophy of Locke, Hamilton, and John Stuart Mill, in conjunction with his theological work, but he remained the critic and seeker after a system of his own.
Immediately after his graduation from the Princeton Theological Seminary, Edward Hamilton was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry, November 25, 1858, and sent as pastor to Oyster Bay, Long Island, where he remained for three years. In 1861 Hamilton returned to Ireland with the twofold purpose of visiting relatives and recovering his strength. During part of his visit he acted as preacher in the village of Dromore West, County Sligo. He returned to the United States in 1863 and was appointed by Governor Parker chaplain of the 7th New Jersey Volunteers. He served in the field until the end of the Civil War, then resumed his theological activities as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ohio. It was during this period that he wrote his first philosophical book, A New Analysis in Fundamental Morals (1870), which was undoubtedly inspired by his practical interest in ethical questions.
The year 1868 marked a definite and important change in his life. Chosen Holliday Professor of Mental Philosophy at Hanover College, Hamilton taught there for eleven years, working intensively at the same time in the fields of epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and logic. During the academic year 1882-1883, he was acting professor of ethics, economics, politics, and logic at Princeton University, and the following year he was appointed acting professor of intellectual philosophy at Hamilton College. In 1886 he became Albert Barnes Professor of Philosophy and Hebrew at the latter institution and retained the chair until 1891.
From 1891 to 1894 Hamilton worked on the Standard Dictionary, but at the end of that period he returned to academic pursuits and taught for one year, 1894-1895, as professor of philosophy at Whitworth College, Sumner, Washington, and for four years, 1895-1899, at the University of Washington. In 1899 he took up residence in Plainfield, New Jersey, to devote himself henceforth to literary work, principally in the field of philosophy. In 1902 he published a comprehensive ethics entitled The Moral Law, or the Theory and Practice of Duty. His ethics was not founded upon any existing theories, but the underlying principle was that of the “absolute good. ” Anxious that the Germans should know and understand his philosophical doctrine, and fearing that a translator might give a misleading meaning to important concepts, he therefore went twice to Germany to work in that language, in 1906-1907 to Gottingen, and in 1911-1912 to Charlottenburg. In 1911 he published Perzeptionalismus und Modalismus, eine Erkenntnistheorie, and in 1912 Erkennen und Schliessen, eine theoretische Logik auf der Grundlage des Perseptionalismus und Modalismus. His last work was Rational Orthodoxy, published in 1917.
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Hamilton's epistemological theory, as expressed in The Perceptionalist, differs from both idealism and materialism. He believed in the objective reality of space, time, and the universe, and laid stress upon the distinction between thought or concept and belief or conviction. According to his theory of logic, one must include contingency and probability as well as necessity and certainty in a pure logic.
On September 23, 1867, Hamilton was married to Eliza (Cleland) Hume of Cincinnati.
