Perry, RB (English spelling) PerryRB

Japanese: Perry,R.B.(英語表記)PerryRB
Perry, RB (English spelling) PerryRB

…American philosopher. Born in Poultney, Vermont, he studied at Princeton and Harvard universities, and taught at Harvard from 1902 to 1946. He is also a researcher of American intellectual history, and is particularly an authority on W. James, and is well known as the author of The Thought and Character of William James, 2 volumes (1935, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1936). Perry's philosophical position is what he calls "neo-realism," which argues that the entities investigated in logic, mathematics, and the natural sciences are not mental, but exist independently of the perceiving mind, and that their reality does not depend at all on how they are perceived. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Perry, RB" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…アメリカの哲学者。バーモント州のポールトニーに生まれ,プリンストン大学とハーバード大学で学び,1902年から46年までハーバード大学で教えた。アメリカ思想史の研究者でもあり,特にW.ジェームズ研究の権威で,《ウィリアム・ジェームズの思想と性格》2巻(1935。1936年度のピュリッツァー賞受賞)の著者としてもよく知られている。ペリーの哲学的立場はみずから〈新実在論〉と称しているもので,論理学,数学および自然諸科学において究明される実体は心的なものではなく,認識する精神とは独立に存在し,それらの実在性は認識のされ方にはまったく依存しないと説く。…

※「Perry,R.B.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

<<:  Perry, MM (English spelling) PerryMM

>>:  Perry, WJ

Recommend

Okayasu Kinuta (Okayasu Kinuta) - Okayasu Kinuta

Name of Nagauta piece and Yamada school koto piece...

Philip van Artevelde

…However, there was constant discord among the ci...

Commercial tax - shozei (English spelling) shang-shui

A commodity tax in China. In the narrow sense, it ...

Kokenki - Kokenki

This aircraft was designed in 1937 (Showa 12) by ...

Indo-Iranian languages

It is a branch of the Indo-European language fami...

Miyama Kozorina - Miyama Kozorina

A perennial herb of the Asteraceae family (illustr...

Layer-built cell

A battery that can obtain a nominal voltage of 4....

Suggestion box - Meyasubako

The box was set up by the 8th Shogun of the Edo S...

Mitsusuke Akamatsu

Shugo of Harima, Bizen, and Mimasaka provinces in...

stopping power

…When charged particle radiation enters a materia...

Cantonese cuisine - Kantonryori

One of the four major Chinese cuisine styles, it i...

Kawauchi [Village] - Kawauchi

A village in Futaba County, eastern Fukushima Pref...

The Ten Provinces of Kanto

…The government office established by the Muromac...

The principle of karmic contract

…However, the principle of social cohesion in Jap...

Tockus camurus (English spelling)

...Length is 38-125cm. The smallest species is th...