Background
Burtt, Edwin Arthur was born on October 11, 1892 in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edwin Palmer and Harriet Louis (Jerome) Burtt.
(A survery of religious philosophies under 17 chapter head...)
A survery of religious philosophies under 17 chapter headings: Introduction, The Hebrew Background, The Background in Greek Philosophy, The Formation of Orthodox Theology, The Catholic Philosophy of Religion, Protestant Fundamentalism, The Religion of Science, Agnosticism, Ethical Idealism, Protestant Liberalism, Modernism Versus Humanism, The New Supernaturalism, The Scope and Certainty of Religious Knowledge, The Essential Structure of the Universe, Religion, Metaphysics, History, and Social Ethics, Man as Sinner, Method in Religious Philosophy--The Role of Faith. 8-page index. Pages: xii+468; 8.25" x 5.25"
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Burtt, Edwin Arthur was born on October 11, 1892 in Groton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edwin Palmer and Harriet Louis (Jerome) Burtt.
AB, Yale University, 1915. Bachelor's Degree, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1920. School of Theology and Ministry, Union Theological Seminary, 1922.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1925. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Chicago, 1951.
His doctoral thesis published as a book under the title The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science has had a significant influence upon the history of science that is not generally recognized, according to H. Floris Cohen. He became the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University in 1941. He died on September 6, 1989 in Ithaca, New New York
Based on his own statements, Thomas Kuhn may very well have been unaware that in building on the philosophy of Alexandre Koyré, he was in turn building on the philosophy of Burtt whose influence upon Koyré has been demonstrated as substantial.
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Coming to philosophy from a prior interest in religion, Burtt’s insights and publications emerged from the undergraduate teaching in which he specialized. His book in logic, oriented to Dewey's analysis of the nature of reflection, provided a valuable exposition of the manner in which that analysis fits problems of many kinds. His book on the foundations of modem science was developed from his Columbia course on the history of British philosophy. Examining scientists from Copernicus to Newton, and philosophers from Descartes to Henry More, he takes us through the transition from the teleological world of Dante into the ‘meaningless’ world of Russell’s ‘A free man's worship’. His resolution of the problem of meaninglessness directs us to the many variants of religious philosophy which he considers in both East and West. In Man Seeks the Divine he argued that psychotherapy can help religion meet its goal of personal self-fulfilment, while religion can help psychotherapy incorporate ultimate deals which, in his view, include the idea of God. In The Human Journey (1981), his 1958 Ghosh Lectures given in Calcutta and published much later, Burtt expresses a ‘realistic hope’ that humanity, both individually and collectively, is related to ‘some vaster destiny than we have in the past dared to glimpse’.
Member American Philosophical Association, American Theological Association, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, Beta Theta Pi.
Married Mildred Caroline Camp, September 25, 1916 (divorced). Children: Edith Jerome, Dorothy Newell, Harriet Virginia, Winifred Jane Burtt Brinster. Married second. Marjorie Frances Murray, June 16, 1951.