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Addison Webster Moore
1866–1930
A leading American pragmatist, he wrote about how thought grows out of experience and helped shape philosophy at the University of Chicago. His work is closely linked with the early development of Deweyan ideas in the United States.
1 Audiobook
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Born in Plainfield, Indiana, in 1866, Addison Webster Moore became an American philosopher known for pragmatism. He studied at DePauw, did graduate work first at Cornell and then at the University of Chicago, and went on to spend most of his career teaching philosophy at Chicago.
Moore wrote books including The Functional versus the Representational Theory of Knowledge and Pragmatism and Its Critics. His writing explored how knowledge, ideas, and experience work together, and he became an important interpreter of pragmatism for students and general readers alike.
He was also active in the profession more broadly, serving as president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1911 and of the American Philosophical Association in 1917. He died in 1930.