Background
Noah Thomas Porter was born in Farmington, Connecticut, United States on the 14th of December 1811.
(Excerpt from The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Up...)
Excerpt from The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul The designs of the author in preparing the volume may serve in part to explain the selection and arrangement of the matter Of which it consists, and to give greater force to a few suggestions in respect to its use as a text-book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1330350855/?tag=2022091-20
(Excerpt from The Elements of Intellectual Science Discus...)
Excerpt from The Elements of Intellectual Science Discussion of the important speculative questions which occupy the concluding part of the treatise. For the con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1330736826/?tag=2022091-20
Noah Thomas Porter was born in Farmington, Connecticut, United States on the 14th of December 1811.
He graduated in 1831 from Yale College.
He was ordained as a Congregational minister in New Milford, Connecticut from 1836 to 1843. He served as pastor at a Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1843 to 1846. He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846. Porter was inaugurated as President of Yale College on Wednesday, October 11, 1871. He continued to serve as head of the college until 1886. Porter edited several editions of Webster's Dictionary, and wrote on education.
He was the author of The Human Intellect, with an Introduction upon Psychology and the Human Soul (1868), comprehending a general history of philosophy, and following in part the "common-sense" philosophy of the Scottish school, while accepting the Kantian doctrine of intuition, and declaring the notion of design to be a priori. Of great importance were two other works, Elements of Intellectual Science (1871) and Elements of Moral Science (1885).
(Excerpt from The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Up...)
(Excerpt from The Elements of Intellectual Science Discus...)
Influenced by the German refugee writer and philosopher Francis Lieber, Porter opposed slavery and integrated an antislavery position with religious liberalism.
He was a member of the Linonian Society.
He was a frequent visitor to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and in 1875 was among the first recorded to make an ascent of the peak later named Porter Mountain in his honor.
He married Mary Taylor, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Taylor (who presided over the creation of the Yale Divinity School and created what came to be known as "New Haven theology") and his wife Rebecca Marie Hine. They had several children, and two daughters survived them.