Background
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of a Baptist minister, he graduated from Morris High School in New York City and obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1918.
philosopher university professor
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son of a Baptist minister, he graduated from Morris High School in New York City and obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1918.
He obtained an Master of Arts the following year and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1922. He started working as an assistant professor of philosophy at Columbia in 1925. He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1967.
He published The Problem of Group Responsibility in 1922 and The Making of the Modern Mind in 1926.
He also coauthored The Introduction to Contemporary Civilization and wrote an influential study of Aristotle, entitled simply Aristotle. He was one of signers of the Humanist Manifesto in 1933.