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Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was an American philosopher, university teacher, historian, and writer. Born in Grass Valley and educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley, he studied under Joseph LeConte and Hermann Lotze. He held academic positions at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Royce was a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is associated with the Hegelianism movement and wrote in English. His notable works include *The mechanical, the historical and the statistical*, *James as a philosopher*, *Royce's Logical essays*, *The relation of the principles of logic to the foundations of geomety*, and *The present position of the problem of natural religion*.
He taught students such as Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, Mary Whiton Calkins, William Ernest Hocking, Clarence Irving Lewis, and Henry M. Sheffer. Royce died in Cambridge and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1855
- Died
- 1916
- Works
- 125
Top works
- The mechanical, the historical and the statistical
- James as a philosopher
- Royce's Logical essays
- The relation of the principles of logic to the foundations of geomety
- The present position of the problem of natural religion
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): BINARIES, PULSATIONS, AND EXPLOSIONS
· 2015 · cited 3,026x
- Formative assessment and the design of instructional systems
· 1989 · cited 2,435x
- Monolayer-Protected Cluster Molecules
· 1999 · cited 2,208x
- Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (
): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions
· 2018 · cited 2,030x
- Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation
· 2019 · cited 1,700x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Error is not a mere accident of an untrained intellect, but a necessary stage or feature or moment of the expression of the truth.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1855-11-20 ) November 20, 1855, Grass Valley, California , U.S.
- Died
- September 14, 1916 (1916-09-14) (aged 60), Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley ( BA ), University of Göttingen , Johns Hopkins University ( PhD )
- Thesis
- Of the Interdependence of the Principles of Knowledge (1878)
- Academic advisors
- William James , Hermann Lotze , C. S. Peirce , Wilhelm Windelband , Wilhelm Wundt
- Era
- 19th- / 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy American philosophy
- School
- Pragmatism , American idealism , Objective idealism
- Doctoral students
- Curt John Ducasse , C. I. Lewis , George Santayana , Henry M. Sheffer
- Main interests
- Ethics , philosophy of religion , metaphysics
- Notable ideas
- Philosophy of loyalty
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Josiah
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Grass Valley
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- George Sylvester Morris
- Student of
- Hermann Lotze
- Doctoral student
- Henry M. Sheffer
- Movement
- Hegelianism
- Image
- Josiah Royce.jpeg
Show 11 more facts
- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1855-11-20
- date of death
- 1916-09-14
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- student
- Mary Whiton Calkins
- Commons category
- Josiah Royce
- Commons Creator page
- Josiah Royce
- writing language
- English language
- influenced by
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- P8168
- Deurne
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Josiah Royce, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Josiah Royce (/rɔɪs/; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism.
Royce's essay "A Word for the Times" (December 1914) was quoted in the 1936 State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "The human race now passes through one of its great crises. New ideas, new issues – a new call for men to carry on the work of righteousness, of charity, of courage, of patience, and of loyalty. [...] I studied, I loved, I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Josiah Royce” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.