Samuel Alexander
Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Alexander OM FBA (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.[2] He is now best known as an advocate of emergentism in biology.[3]
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Born | 6 January 1859 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Died | 13 September 1938 (1938-09-14) (aged 79) Manchester, England |
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Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Main interests | Metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Emergent evolution |
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