FJE Woodbridge (23 agos 1902 anni – 29 gen 1937 anni)

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At Columbia from 1902

BA Amhert where he studied philosophy and religion under Charles Edward Garman
1889-92: Union Theological Seminary

1892-4: Humboldt University of Berlin on Fellowship, studying philosophy

1894-1902: teaching a U. Minn


http://jwood.faculty.unlv.edu//fjew/index.html: by J.A. Woodbridge: "He was one of the principal figures responsible for the adoption of philosophical realism in the United States. Along with George Santayana and John Dewey, Woodbridge was a founder of the philosophical movement known as American Naturalism. It was largely under Woodbridge's influence that Aristotelian trends of thought were revived in the United States, and his naturalistic interpretation of Aristotle became the classic American interpretation....."

"This realistic emphasis of Woodbridge appears in a number of essays [in Naturalism and the Human Spirit]; for over half the contributors were students of his--he was a consummate teacher--and reveal the strong impress of his powerful personality. Much as they have learned from Dewey, it is clear to the discerning reader that most of them owe their fundamental naturalism to Woodbridge". (Randall, "Epilogue," Randall, John H., Jr. "Epilogue: The Nature of Naturalism." In Naturalism and the Human Spirit, edited by Y.H. Krikorian, pp. 354-382. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.
p. 366.)

"Woodbridge was preeminently a teacher--a teacher in the great tradition of Socrates. To compel students to think until they saw was the essence of his philosophy of education. Scarcely has there been a teacher more successful; never was there one more revered" (Delaney, Delaney, C.F. Mind and Nature: A Study of the Naturalistic Philosophy of Cohen, Woodbridge and Sellars. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1969, p. 7.)

bibliography: http://jwood.faculty.unlv.edu//fjew/onfjew.htm#delaney

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