Background
Pepper, Stephen Coburn was born on April 19, 1891 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Pepper, Stephen Coburn was born on April 19, 1891 in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
Harvard University, BA 1913, Manuscripts and Archives 1914, PhD 1916.
1916-1917. Instructor, Wellesley College. 1919-1972, Assistant Professor to Professor of Philosophy, 1938-1947, Assistant Dean. College of Letters and Science, 1938-1952, Chairman.
Art Department, University of California at Berkeley.
Pepper’s World Hypotheses (1948), based on his root-metaphor theory, which originated in his Esthetics, is a theory of metaphysical systems, which he called ‘world hypotheses’. According to pepper there are four world hypotheses that are equally plausible: formism, mechanism, organieism and context ualism. Pepper also advanced a comprehensive, emP'rical, naturalistic general theory of value in The Sources of Value (1958). Its central concepts are the notions of the purposive act and of the selective system. He came to consider the purposive act to be a new root metaphor. His Concept und Quality (1967) presents his own metaphysics based on this new root metaphor. He called it selectivism’.