Philosopher

William Pepperell Montague

Overview

William Pepperell Montague (11 November 1873 – 1 August 1953) was an American philosopher of the New Realist school. Montague stressed the difference between his philosophical peers as adherents of either "objective" and "critical realism".

Montague was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He earned his bachelors, masters, and doctorate from Harvard University. He was professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley between 1899 and 1903, and at Columbia University from 1903 to 1947. He was president of the American Philosophical Association's eastern division in the years 1923–1924. He died in New York City.

Montague was an advocate of panpsychism and proposed his own variant known as hylopsychism which developed the connection between energy and mind, contending that the physical manifestation of mind occurs as potential energy.

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Philosophers who discussed William Pepperell Montague

• Henri Bergson
• Ralph Barton Perry
• C. I. Lewis
• Brand Blanshard

Ideas William Pepperell Montague discusses

• American Philosophical Association
• Philosophy
• Harvard University
• Ralph Barton Perry
• Panpsychism
• Columbia University
• New York City
• New realism (philosophy)
• The Journal of Religion
• Edward Gleason Spaulding
• Walter B. Pitkin

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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