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It strikes one as odd that a philosopher should be called 'Wisdom'; that two bearers of the name should be contemporary philosophers passes beyond the limits of the reasonable; that they should both be interested in psycho-analysis has produced in many minds the justifiable conviction that the two
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from 1952 until 1963. In the mid-sixties Wisdom would move to North America, teaching at several US universities before finally moving to Canada and to a professorship in philosophy and social science at
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are one. But it must be none the less insisted that J. O. Wisdom of the London School of Economics ...is not identical with his cousin Professor John Wisdom of the University of Cambridge.
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Born in Dublin on 29 December 1908, J. O. Wisdom (as he was often cited) was the only child of Thomas Hume Wisdom, a brewery clerk, and his English-born wife Jane Oulton.
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Wisdom was then to move to Cambridge where he encountered the analytical philosophy of
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For complete bibliographical details see "Publications by John Oulton Wisdom" (1993).
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He was educated at Earlsfort House School, also attended by
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in 1947. In 1948 he was appointed as a lecturer at the
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Irish Amateur Close
Dublin
Ireland
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Castlebridge
County Wexford
Republic of Ireland
John Wisdom
mind-body problem
philosophy of science
Samuel Beckett
Trinity College Dublin
Henry Stewart Macran
Hegel
G.E. Moore
Ludwig Wittgenstein
London School of Economics
Karl Popper
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
York University, Toronto
Castlebridge
County Wexford
The Metamorphosis of Philosophy
Foundations of Inference in Natural Science
The Unconscious Origin of Berkeley's Philosophy
Philosophy and its Place in our Culture
Schemata
Freud, Women, and Society
Passmore, John

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