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Cook Wilson believed that "the (printed) letter killeth, and it is extraordinary how it will prevent the acutest from exercising their wonted clearness of vision" (SI, p. 872), and so naturally refrained from publishing his philosophical views, printing instead for private circulation pamphlets
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which was formed at his suggestion. He married Charlotte Schneider, whom he had met in Germany, in 1876, but she had predeceased him in January 1914. They had a son, Ralph Woempener Wilson, also a scholar at Balliol (1898-1902) who later moved to South Africa. Cook Wilson died at his home in
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Cook Wilson often argued for the existence of God as an experiential reality. He is quoted saying 'We don't want merely inferred friends, could we be satisfied with an inferred God?' He also had a long running dispute with
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Cook Wilson's most important extra-curricular activity was the development of tactics for military bicycle units to which he also devoted some publications and the
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in 1873, and he was elected Wykeham Professor of Logic in 1889, eventually becoming a Fellow of
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Aristotelian Studies I. On the Structure of the Seventh Book of the Nicomachean Ethics, ch. iā€“x
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On the Interpretation of Platoā€™s Timaeus. Critical Studies with Reference to a Recent Edition
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In Classics Cook Wilson published over 50 papers and book-length studies on Aristotleā€™s
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The Theory of Judgment in the Philosophies of F.H. Bradley and John Cook Wilson
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in 1901 and remaining there until his death. In his inaugural lecture,
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On an Evolutionist Theory of the Axioms, An Inaugural Lecture
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Mathieu Marion, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2022)
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A full list of Cook Wilson's publications can be found in
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Belonging to a generation brought up in the atmosphere of
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy
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R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and Other Writings
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Statement and Inference and other Philosophical Papers
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Nottingham
Oxford
Balliol College, Oxford
19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Oxford University
T. H. Green
Henry William Chandler
Henry John Stephen Smith
H.A. Prichard
H. W. B. Joseph
Edgar Frederick Carritt
W.D. Ross
R. G. Collingwood
Logic
Theory of Knowledge
FBA
Wykeham Professor of Logic
New College
Nottingham
Derby Grammar School
Balliol College
H. W. Chandler
H. J. S. Smith
Conington Prize
Hermann Lotze
Oriel College, Oxford

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