Morton White, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Morton White

American philosopher

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1917

Place of Birth: Lower East Side, New York, United States

Date of Death: 27-May-2016

Profession: historian, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Morton White (April 29, 1917 – May 27, 2016) was an American philosopher and historian of ideas.
He was a proponent of a doctrine he calls holistic pragmatism (a variant of pragmatism) and also a noted scholar of American intellectual history.
He was a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard from 1953 to 1970.
He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where he served as Professor in the School of Historical Studies from 1970 until he retired in 1987.