John Oulton Wisdom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish philosopher
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Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
About John Oulton Wisdom
- John Oulton Wisdom (29 December 1908 - 30 January 1993), cousin of Cambridge professor John Wisdom (with whom he is sometimes confused) was "an important contributor to philosophy and to psychoanalysis" who made "original contributions to the mind-body problem, to philosophy of science, to cybernetics, to the theory of psychosomatic disorder, and to psychoanalytic theory".Born in Dublin.
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- Wisdom (as he was often cited) was educated at Earlsfort House School and then at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied under the Hegelian scholar H.
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- Macran.
- Graduating in 1931, J.O.
- Wisdom continued postgraduate studies until 1933 when he received a doctoral degree for a thesis on Hegel.
- He was then to move to Cambridge where he encountered the analytical philosophy of G.E.
- Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- His first teaching post was in Cairo, where he published The Metamorphosis of Philosophy in 1947.
- In 1948 he was appointed as a lecturer at the London School of Economics, (where he would meet with Karl Popper) before being appointed as a Reader in 1953, a position he retained until 1965.
- Wisdom also served as an editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 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 York University, Toronto, where he remained until his retirement in 1979.
- He died at his home in Castlebridge, Co.
- Wexford, in 1993.
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