biography
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Lewis, C(larence) I(rving)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1964)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Stoneham, Massachusetts, USA. Directed to social problems by his father, a shoemaker blacklisted for union activities, and encouraged in philosophy by an elderly woman he met during a summer job, he graduated from Harvard (1905), having studied under William James and Josiah Royce. After earning a PhD (1910) he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1911–20) and Harvard (1920–53). He developed a logic of strict implication, a pragmatic theory of knowledge, and a naturalistic value theory, and among his works is An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (1946). |
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