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Addison Webster Moore
1866–1930
A leading American pragmatist, this early 20th-century philosopher helped shape debates about knowledge, experience, and the practical work of philosophy. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago and became a national voice in the field.
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 studied at DePauw before continuing graduate work in philosophy and later joining the University of Chicago, where he spent most of his career. He became known as part of the American pragmatist tradition that grew around John Dewey and other major thinkers of the period.
Moore wrote on epistemology, idealism, and pragmatism, including books such as Existence, Meaning, and Reality in Locke's Essay and Pragmatism and Its Critics. His work tried to connect philosophical problems with lived experience instead of treating ideas as abstract puzzles cut off from ordinary life.
He was also widely respected by his peers, serving as president of the Western Philosophical Association in 1911 and of the American Philosophical Association in 1917. Moore died in 1930, but he remains an important figure for readers interested in the development of American philosophy.