Background
Montague, William Pepperell was born on November 24, 1874 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States.
Montague, William Pepperell was born on November 24, 1874 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States.
Harvard University.
Professor and °hnsonian Professor of Philosophy, University Columbia. Carnegie Professor in International Nations to Japan, Czechoslovakia and Italy.
*ai" Publications:
12) The New Realism, New YorMs.n.).
11925) The Ways of Knowing or the Methods of hilosophy, London: George Allen & Unwin.
^0) Belief Unbound, A Promethean Religion for the Modern World, New Haven: Yale University Press.
11930) Contemporary ■American Philosophy 2 vols, London: Allen & Unwin.
11940) The Way of Things—a Philosophy of Know!- edge. Nature and Value, New York: Prentice-Hall.
^0) Great Visions of Philosophy, Varieties of Peculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to ergson, La Salle, 111: Open Court.
Montague was one of the six members of the US New Realist movement in the early part of this century. According to the New Realists the world of objects is real and independent of our sense experience of them. Apart from epistemology, Montague was interested in the nature of mind and its relation to the body. According to him the soul, possessing all the attributes of mind, is a kind of energy which, though private and observable only as internal sensation, is none the less causally effective on the visible cerebral matrix.