John Henry Muirhead

John Henry Muirhead (April 28, 1855 - May 24, 1940) was a British philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890. He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at the Glasgow Academy (1866–70), and proceeded to Glasgow University, where he was deeply influenced by the Hegelianism of Edward Caird, professor of moral philosophy. He graduated MA in 1875. The same year he won a Snell exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, to which he went up in Trinity term 1875. His library was originally published by Allen & Unwin and continued through to the 1970s. His library is seen as a crucial landmark in the history of modern philosophy, publishing a number of prominent 20th Century philosophers including Ernest Albee, Brand Blanshard, Francis Herbert Bradley, Axel Hagerstrom, Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Bernard Bosanquet, Irving Thalberg, Jr., Georg Wilhelm Hegel, and George Edward Moore. In 2002, the library was made available in a 95 volume set. (ISBN 0-415-27897-X)

J.H. Muirhead writings:

• The Life and Philosophy of Edward Caird (written with Sir Henry Jones), (1921) – Maclehose, Jackson and Co., Glasgow
• Coleridge as Philosopher (1930) - MacMillan & Co., New York
• The Platonic Tradition in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy: Studies in the History of Idealism in England and America (1931) - London: G. Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan
• The Use of Philosophy: Californian Addresses (1979) - Greenwood Press
• The Elements of Ethics - C. Scribner's Sons
• Rule and End in Morals (1969) - Books for Libraries Press
• Chapters from Aristotle's Ethics - J. Murray

External links

• Works written by or about John Henry Muirhead at Wikisource