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James Hayden Tufts
1862–1942
A founding figure in the University of Chicago’s philosophy department, this American philosopher helped shape early pragmatism and linked ethics to everyday social life.
3 Audiobooks
Ethics
by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts
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
The Ethics of Coöperation
by James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Born in 1862, he taught philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1930 and became chairman of the department in 1905. University of Chicago archival records also show that he took on major leadership roles there, including dean, vice-president, and acting president.
He is often remembered alongside John Dewey and George Herbert Mead as part of the early Chicago school of pragmatism. His best-known work includes Ethics, written with Dewey, and his career reflects a steady interest in connecting philosophy with education, civic responsibility, and social reform in Chicago.
He died in 1942, leaving behind both published work and archival papers that document a long academic life.