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Herbert Wildon Carr
1857–1931
A British philosopher who came to academic life after success in business, he became one of the clearest English interpreters of Henri Bergson and wrote widely on metaphysics, science, and religion. His work is remembered for trying to bring older idealist traditions into conversation with newer ideas about life, mind, and change.
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The Problem of Truth
by Herbert Wildon Carr
About the author
Born in London in 1857, Herbert Wildon Carr first trained for business and made his career outside the university before turning seriously to philosophy. He studied at King's College London as a mature student, became active in the Aristotelian Society, and later served as Professor of Philosophy at King's College from 1918 to 1925.
Carr became especially known in Britain as an interpreter of Henri Bergson. He wrote books on Bergson, Leibniz, idealism, and the relation between science, metaphysics, and religion, and he tried to connect older philosophical systems with newer ways of thinking about life and creativity.
After leaving King's College, he taught at the University of Southern California, where he remained until his death in Los Angeles in 1931. Contemporary accounts remembered him as an energetic and enthusiastic philosophical writer whose career took an unusual path from the world of finance into academic philosophy.