author
Herbert Wildon Carr
1857–1931
A British philosopher who came to the subject after an earlier career in business, he became known for bringing Henri Bergson’s ideas into English-language philosophy. His work often tried to connect older metaphysical questions with the science and intellectual debates of his own time.
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The Problem of Truth
by Herbert Wildon Carr
About the author
Born in London in 1857, Herbert Wildon Carr was a British philosopher best remembered for writing about Henri Bergson and for trying to reconcile Bergsonian thought with ideas drawn from Leibniz. Sources available here also indicate that he first made his way in business before turning more fully toward academic philosophy later in life.
Carr studied at King’s College London as a mature student and went on to become Professor of Philosophy in the University of London. Later, in 1925, he accepted a position at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he remained until his death in 1931.
His reputation rests on a body of work that aimed to make difficult philosophical movements more accessible to English readers while also developing a philosophical outlook of his own. Even in brief accounts, he comes across as a figure who moved between practical life and abstract thought with unusual confidence.