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. …

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…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。…

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