F. C. S. Schiller
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (August 16 1864 - August 9 1937) was a German-British pragmatist philosopher. Born in Nord-Schleswig, Denmark, Schiller studied at the University of Oxford, and later was a professor there, after being invited back after a brief time at Cornell. Later in his life he taught at the University of Southern California. His philosophy was very similar to and often aligned with the pragmatism of William James, although Schiller refered to it as humanism. Schiller was among the most prominent of the pragmatists of his era. His form of pragmatism held a middle ground along with that of James. He argued vigorously against both logical positivism (e.g., Bertrand Russell) and absolute idealism (e.g.. F.H. Bradley).
Schiller was an early supporter of evolution and a founding member of the English Eugenics Society.
Selected works
- Riddles of the Sphinx (1891)
- Axioms as Postulates (1902, published in the collection Personal Idealism)
- Humanism (1903)
- Studies in Humanism (1907)
- Plato or Protagoras? (1908)
- Riddles of the Sphinx (1910, revised edition)
- Humanism (1912, second edition)
- Formal Logic(1912)
- Problems of Belief (1924, second edition)
- Logic for Use (1929)
- Our Human Truths (1939), published posthumously)
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