James Edwin Creighton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

James Edwin Creighton

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1861

Place of Birth: Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date of Death: 08-Oct-1924

Profession: philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

James Edwin Creighton (April 8, 1861, Pictou, Nova Scotia – October 8, 1924, Ithaca, NY), was an American philosopher who believed no system of thought can be the product of an isolated mind.
He was early influenced by Kant, Bradley and Bosanquet, and later accepted some of the views of Windelband and Heinrich Rickert, without sharing all of their opinions.
Creighton differentiated between what he considered as intelligible in philosophy and what is intelligible in the natural sciences. Since 1895 Creighton was Sage professor of logic and metaphysic at Cornell University.
Creighton (1902) was the founding president of the American Philosophical Association. His most important essays were compiled in Studies in Speculative Philosophy (Creighton, 1925; see also Sabine, 1917).