John Oulton Wisdom
John Oulton Wisdom (29 December 1908 - 30 January 1993), was "an important contributor to philosophy and to psychoanalysis"[1] (not to be confused with his cousin Cambridge professor J. A. T. D. Wisdom who shared some similar interests).
In December 1948 J.O. Wisdom joined Karl Popper (appointed 1946) as a philosopher at the London School of Economics (LSE)[2]. Initially appointed as a lecturer at LSE, Wisdom was appointed as a Reader in 1953, a position he retained until 1965. He was also an editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1952 until 1963.
Born in Dublin and died in Castlebridge, County Wexford, Wisom was educated at Earlsfort House School and then at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied under the Hegelian scholar H. S. Macran . He graduated from Trinity College in 1931 , continuing his postgraduate studies in philosophy until 1933 , when he received a doctoral degree for a thesis on Hegel . He then moved to Cambridge.
Select Bibliography
Causation and the Foundations of Science (Paris, 1946).
The Metamorphosis of Philosophy (Cairo, 1947).
Foundations of Inference in Natural Science (1952).
The Unconscious Origin of Berkeley's Philosophy (1953).
Philosophy and its Place in our Culture (1975).
Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Aldershot, 1987) [Available to borrow on Internet Archive]
Freud, Women, and Society (New Brunswick, 1992).
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- ^ "Obituary: J. O. Wisdom". The Independent. 1993-03-04. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
- ^ Miller, Davis. "Sir Karl Raimund Popper, C. H., F. B. A. 28 July 1902 -17 September 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: p. 14 – via JSTOR.
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