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Theodore was born at Oakland, California, the son of Alexander de Leo and Frederica Henrietta (Bergner) de Laguna. His father was a French citizen of Spanish descent who came to the United States during the political revolution of 1848. His mother was born in Saxony. Alexander de Laguna married her in Philadelphia in 1850. In the same year they sailed for San Francisco by way of Cape Horn. Theodore was the youngest of nine children.
He attended the public schools of Oakland and was graduated from the University of California in 1896. From the same University he received the degree of M. A. in 1899. In 1900-1901 he was fellow in philosophy in Cornell University and at the end of that year was granted the doctorate in philosophy.
From 1901 to 1903 Theodore de Laguna taught school in the Philippine Islands and traveled in the Orient. Although his health suffered from this experience, he regarded it as an important factor in the later formulation of his sociological views. During the years 1903-1905 he resumed his studies in philosophy at Cornell University where he held office as honorary fellow and assistant in philosophy. In the autumn of 1905 he went to the University of Michigan where De Laguna had been appointed assistant professor of education.
From 1907 until his death at Hardwick, Vermont, in September 1930, he was professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. De Laguna's interests were not confined to technical philosophy, but included also the fields of literature and music. Reared in the rigorous pietism of a Lutheran home, he sought, even in his undergraduate years, freedom of thought by shaking off the trammels of the constraining faith in which he had been bred, but more than a touch of that faith lingered on to his last days (Contemporary American Philosophy, vol. I, pp. 420 ff. ).
His philosophical life was spent largely in the processes of analysis and criticism. He gave his allegiance to no school of thought, although at different periods of his life he acknowledged the spell of neo-Hegelianism and welcomed certain aspects of the pragmatism of William James, such as the evolutionary view of knowledge and the emphasis laid on belief. He was disposed to reject the traditional empiricism and rationalism in their dogmatic forms. Between these, on the one hand, and the new theories of social and organic evolution on the other, he wrote as a mediator. He characterized his own philosophy as "The Way of Opinion. " Not only is knowledge in constant process of growth and modification, according to De Laguna's view, but there is no such thing as truth in general; there are only truths of particular propositions. There is no science of the universe, but only particular sciences. Cosmologies are merely figures of speech. He is not an agnostic nor is he a skeptic in any ordinary connotation of these terms. While he denies the validity of induction, and accords to deduction alone logical validity as a method, he finds in science a healthy condition. "Scientific knowledge has the best claim to the title that any beliefs can have" (Contemporary American Philosophy, vol. I, p. 411); it (scientific knowledge) is the most authoritative "opinion, " the nearest approximation to certainty, and in this respect is superior to speculative philosophy in its present state.
De Laguna's most notable publications include the following: "Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (1910)", written in collaboration with his wife; "Introduction to the Science of Ethics" (1914); "Factors of Social Evolution" (1926); "The Way of Opinion" (in Contemporary American Philosophy, vol. I, 1930); and numerous articles and discussions of current philosophical literature published principally in the Journal of Philosophy and the Philosophical Review.
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On September 9, 1905, de Laguna married Grace Mead Andrus, then a graduate student in Cornell University. From the time of his marriage his wife was closely associated with him in his philosophical studies, teaching, and publication.
