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Amherst College.
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James Tufts
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The work Ethics in 1908 (with a second edition appearing in 1932) was a collaboration of Tufts and John Dewey. from Amherst College in 1890, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Freiburg under Alois Riehl in 1892. Tufts was a longstanding chairman of the Department of Philosophy and at one time was the acting president of Chicago University.
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Tufts was an 1884 graduate of Amherst College. Received a Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University in 1889 (where he won the John Addison Porter Prize), an Master of Arts With John Dewey and George Herbert Mead (both of whom Tufts was instrumental in bringing to the University), Tufts was a co-founder of the Chicago School of Pragmatism.
Politics
Tufts believed in a conception of mutual influences which he saw as opposed in both Marxism and idealism.
Membership
Tufts was also a member of the Board of Arbitration, and the chairman of a committee of the social agencies of Chicago.
