John Cook Wilson
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John Cook Wilson (born Nottingham 6 June 1849, died 1915) was an English philosopher.
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[edit] Education
The only son of a Methodist minister, after Derby School he went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1868, where he read both Classics and Mathematics, gaining a double First in both.
[edit] Career summary
Wilson became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1873. He was Wykeham Professor of Logic and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1889 until his death. H. A. Prichard and H. H. Price were among his students.
Belonging to a generation brought up in the atmosphere of British idealism, he espoused the cause of philosophical realism. His posthumous collected papers, Statement and Inference, were influential on a generation of Oxford philosophers. He features prominently in the work of Austin and John McDowell.
[edit] Author
- Statement and Inference by John Cook Wilson, edited from the manuscripts by A.S.L. Farquharson (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926)
- Statement and Inference (new edition, Thoemmes Continuum, 2007, 1091 pages) ISBN-10 185506958X
- On Military Cycling or Amenities of Controversy (1889)
- On the Interpretation of Plato's Timaeus (1886, new edition 1980) ISBN-10 0824095715
- Aristotelian Studies I (1879)
- On the Platonist Doctrine of the Asymbletoi Arithmoi (new edition, 1980) ISBN-10 0824095715
[edit] Family
Wilson married a German wife, Charlotte Schneider, in 1876. They had no children.
[edit] Trivia
- He had a long running dispute with Lewis Carroll over the Barber Shop Paradox.
[edit] References
- Professor John Cook Wilson by H. A. Prichard in Mind, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 111 (July, 1919), pp. 297-318
- The Theory of Judgment in the Philosophies of F.H. Bradley and John Cook Wilson by M. Ahmed (University of Dacca, 1955)
- John Cook Wilson at amazon.co.uk
- John Cook Wilson at philosophypages.com
- JSTOR
