Samuel Alexander

Tags: Philosopher.

Samuel Alexander OM (6 January 1859 Sydney – 13 September 1938 Manchester) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.

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birth date

1859-01-06

birth place

New South Wales, George Street Sydney

death date

1938-09-13

death place

Manchester

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

John Anderson (philosopher), Alfred North Whitehead

influenced by

Baruch Spinoza, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant, F. H. Bradley, William James, Thomas Hill Green

main interest

Metaphysics

notableIdea

Emergent evolution